Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
2] 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.
3] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
4] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
5] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
6] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
7] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
8] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
9] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
10] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
11] 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.
12] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
13] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
14] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
15] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
16] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
17] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
18] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
19] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
20] 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
21] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
22] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
23] 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).
24] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
25] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
26] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
27] 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.
28] 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
29] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
30] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
31] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
32] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
33] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
34] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
35] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
36] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
37] 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.
38] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
39] 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
40] 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
41] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
42] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
43] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
44] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
45] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
46] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
47] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
48] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
49] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
50] 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.
51] 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.
52] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
53] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
54] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
55] 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)
56] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
57] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
58] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
59] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
60] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
61] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
62] 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
63] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
64] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
65] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
66] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
67] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
68] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
69] 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.
70] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
71] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
72] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
73] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
74] 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
75] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
76] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
77] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
78] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
79] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
80] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
81] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
82] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
83] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
84] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
85] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
86] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
87] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
88] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
89] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
90] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
91] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
92] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
93] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
94] 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)
95] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
96] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
97] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
98] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
99] 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.
100] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
101] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
102] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
103] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
104] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
105] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
106] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
107] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
108] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
109] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
110] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
111] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
112] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
113] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
114] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
115] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
116] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
117] 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)
118] Commonsense is not so common.
119] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
120] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
121] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
122] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
123] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
124] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
125] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
126] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
127] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
128] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
129] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
130] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
131] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
132] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
133] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
134] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
135] 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
136] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
137] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
138] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
139] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
140] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
141] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
142] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
143] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
144] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
145] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
146] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
147] 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
148] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
149] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
150] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
151] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
152] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
153] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
154] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
155] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
156] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
157] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
158] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
159] 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]
160] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
161] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
162] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
163] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
164] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
165] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
166] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
167] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
168] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
169] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
170] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
171] 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
172] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
173] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
174] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
175] 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)
176] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
177] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
178] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
179] 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.
180] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
181] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
182] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
183] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
184] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
185] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
186] 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)
187] 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.
188] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
189] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
190] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
191] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
192] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
193] 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.
194] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
195] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
196] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
197] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
198] 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)
199] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
200] 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.
201] 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
202] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
203] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
204] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
205] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
206] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
207] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
208] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
209] 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.
210] 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
211] 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
212] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
213] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
214] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
215] 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.
216] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
217] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
218] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
219] 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
220] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
221] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
222] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
223] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
224] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
225] 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
226] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
227] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
228] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
229] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
230] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
231] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
232] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
233] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
234] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
235] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
236] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
237] 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.
238] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
239] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
240] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
241] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
242] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
243] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
244] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
245] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
246] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
247] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
248] 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.
249] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
250] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
251] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
252] 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
253] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
254] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
255] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
256] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
257] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
258] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
259] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
260] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
261] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
262] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
263] 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).
264] 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.
265] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
266] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
267] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
268] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
269] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
270] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
271] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
272] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
273] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
274] 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)
275] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
276] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
277] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
278] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
279] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
280] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
281] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
282] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
283] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
284] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
285] 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)
286] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
287] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
288] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
289] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
290] 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
291] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
292] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
293] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
294] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
295] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
296] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
297] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
298] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
299] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
300] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
301] 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
302] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
303] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
304] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
305] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
306] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
307] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
308] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
309] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
310] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
311] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
312] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
313] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
314] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
315] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
316] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
317] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
318] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
319] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
320] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
321] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
322] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
323] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
324] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
325] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
326] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
327] 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)
328] 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)
329] 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
330] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
331] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
332] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
333] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
334] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
335] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
336] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
337] 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.
338] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
339] 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
340] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
341] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
342] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
343] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
344] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
345] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
346] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
347] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
348] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
349] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
350] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
351] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
352] 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.
353] 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.
354] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
355] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
356] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
357] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
358] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
359] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
360] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
361] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
362] 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)
363] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
364] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
365] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
366] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
367] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
368] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
369] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
370] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
371] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
372] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
373] 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
374] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
375] 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)
376] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
377] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
378] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
379] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
380] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
381] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
382] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
383] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
384] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
385] 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
386] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
387] 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.
388] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
389] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
390] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
391] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
392] 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.
393] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
394] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
395] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
396] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
397] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
398] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
399] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
400] 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.
401] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
402] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
403] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
404] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
405] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
406] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
407] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
408] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
409] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
410] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
411] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
412] 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]
413] 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.
414] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
415] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
416] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
417] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
418] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
419] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
420] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
421] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
422] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
423] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
424] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
425] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
426] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
427] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
428] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
429] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
430] 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).
431] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
432] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
433] 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
434] 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.
435] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
436] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
437] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
438] 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
439] 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.
440] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
441] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
442] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
443] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
444] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
445] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
446] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
447] 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)
448] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
449] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
450] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
451] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
452] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
453] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
454] 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.
455] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
456] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
457] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
458] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
459] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
460] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
461] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
462] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
463] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
464] 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.
465] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
466] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
467] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
468] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
469] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
470] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
471] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
472] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
473] 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
474] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
475] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
476] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
477] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
478] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
479] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
480] 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.
481] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
482] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
483] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
484] 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)
485] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
486] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
487] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
488] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
489] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
490] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
491] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
492] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
493] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
494] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
495] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
496] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
497] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
498] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
499] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
500] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
501] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
502] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
503] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
504] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
505] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
506] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
507] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
508] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
509] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
510] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
511] 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.
512] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
513] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
514] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
515] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
516] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
517] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
518] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
519] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
520] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
521] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
522] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
523] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
524] 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.
525] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
526] 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.
527] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
528] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
529] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
530] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
531] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
532] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
533] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
534] 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)
535] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
536] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
537] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
538] 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.
539] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
540] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
541] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
542] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
543] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
544] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
545] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
546] 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.
547] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
548] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
549] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
550] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
551] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
552] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
553] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
554] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
555] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
556] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
557] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
558] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
559] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
560] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
561] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
562] 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
563] 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
564] 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
565] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
566] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
567] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
568] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
569] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
570] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
571] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
572] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
573] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
574] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
575] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
576] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
577] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
578] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
579] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
580] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
581] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
582] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
583] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
584] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
585] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
586] 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.
587] 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)
588] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
589] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
590] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
591] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
592] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
593] 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
594] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
595] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
596] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
597] 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.
598] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
599] 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.
600] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.