Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
2] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
3] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
4] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
5] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
6] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
7] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
8] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
9] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
10] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
11] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
12] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
13] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
14] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
15] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
16] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
17] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
18] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
19] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
20] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
21] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
22] 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
23] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
24] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
25] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
26] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
27] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
28] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
29] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
30] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
31] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
32] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
33] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
34] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
35] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
36] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
37] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
38] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
39] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
40] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
41] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
42] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
43] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
44] 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)
45] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
46] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
47] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
48] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
49] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
50] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
51] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
52] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
53] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
54] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
55] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
56] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
57] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
58] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
59] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
60] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
61] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
62] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
63] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
64] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
65] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
66] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
67] 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
68] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
69] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
70] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
71] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
72] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
73] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
74] 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
75] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
76] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
77] 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).
78] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
79] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
80] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
81] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
82] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
83] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
84] 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.
85] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
86] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
87] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
88] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
89] 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.
90] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
91] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
92] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
93] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
94] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
95] 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
96] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
97] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
98] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
99] 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.
100] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
101] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
102] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
103] 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.
104] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
105] 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.
106] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
107] 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.
108] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
109] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
110] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
111] 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.
112] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
113] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
114] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
115] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
116] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
117] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
118] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
119] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
120] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
121] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
122] 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.
123] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
124] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
125] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
126] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
127] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
128] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
129] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
130] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
131] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
132] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
133] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
134] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
135] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
136] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
137] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
138] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
139] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
140] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
141] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
142] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
143] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
144] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
145] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
146] 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.
147] 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
148] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
149] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
150] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
151] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
152] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
153] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
154] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
155] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
156] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
157] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
158] 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)
159] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
160] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
161] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
162] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
163] 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.
164] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
165] 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.
166] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
167] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
168] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
169] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
170] 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.
171] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
172] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
173] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
174] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
175] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
176] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
177] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
178] 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
179] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
180] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
181] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
182] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
183] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
184] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
185] 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
186] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
187] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
188] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
189] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
190] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
191] 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.
192] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
193] 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.
194] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
195] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
196] 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
197] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
198] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
199] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
200] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
201] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
202] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
203] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
204] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
205] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
206] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
207] 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.
208] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
209] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
210] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
211] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
212] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
213] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
214] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
215] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
216] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
217] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
218] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
219] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
220] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
221] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
222] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
223] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
224] 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)
225] 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
226] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
227] 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
228] 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.
229] 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
230] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
231] 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)
232] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
233] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
234] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
235] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
236] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
237] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
238] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
239] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
240] 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
241] 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
242] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
243] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
244] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
245] 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.
246] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
247] 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.
248] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
249] 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.
250] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
251] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
252] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
253] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
254] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
255] 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.
256] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
257] 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
258] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
259] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
260] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
261] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
262] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
263] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
264] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
265] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
266] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
267] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
268] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
269] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
270] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
271] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
272] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
273] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
274] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
275] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
276] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
277] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
278] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
279] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
280] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
281] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
282] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
283] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
284] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
285] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
286] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
287] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
288] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
289] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
290] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
291] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
292] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
293] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
294] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
295] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
296] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
297] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
298] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
299] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
300] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
301] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
302] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
303] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
304] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
305] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
306] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
307] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
308] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
309] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
310] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
311] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
312] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
313] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
314] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
315] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
316] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
317] 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.
318] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
319] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
320] 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)
321] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
322] Commonsense is not so common.
323] 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.
324] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
325] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
326] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
327] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
328] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
329] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
330] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
331] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
332] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
333] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
334] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
335] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
336] 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
337] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
338] 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.
339] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
340] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
341] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
342] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
343] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
344] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
345] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
346] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
347] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
348] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
349] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
350] 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.
351] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
352] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
353] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
354] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
355] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
356] 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.
357] 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
358] 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.
359] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
360] 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.
361] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
362] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
363] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
364] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
365] 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)
366] 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.
367] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
368] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
369] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
370] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
371] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
372] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
373] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
374] 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.
375] 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
376] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
377] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
378] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
379] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
380] 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
381] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
382] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
383] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
384] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
385] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
386] 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
387] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
388] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
389] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
390] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
391] 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
392] 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.
393] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
394] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
395] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
396] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
397] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
398] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
399] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
400] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
401] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
402] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
403] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
404] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
405] 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.
406] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
407] 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
408] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
409] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
410] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
411] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
412] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
413] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
414] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
415] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
416] 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.
417] 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)
418] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
419] 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
420] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
421] 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
422] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
423] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
424] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
425] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
426] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
427] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
428] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
429] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
430] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
431] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
432] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
433] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
434] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
435] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
436] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
437] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
438] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
439] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
440] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
441] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
442] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
443] 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.
444] 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.
445] 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
446] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
447] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
448] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
449] 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.
450] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
451] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
452] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
453] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
454] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
455] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
456] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
457] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
458] 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
459] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
460] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
461] 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.
462] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
463] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
464] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
465] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
466] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
467] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
468] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
469] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
470] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
471] 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)
472] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
473] 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
474] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
475] 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.
476] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
477] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
478] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
479] 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.
480] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
481] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
482] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
483] 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
484] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
485] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
486] 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.
487] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
488] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
489] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
490] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
491] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
492] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
493] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
494] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
495] 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.
496] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
497] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
498] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
499] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
500] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
501] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
502] 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.
503] 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.
504] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
505] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
506] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
507] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
508] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
509] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
510] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
511] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
512] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
513] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
514] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
515] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
516] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
517] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
518] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
519] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
520] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
521] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
522] 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.
523] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
524] 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.
525] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
526] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
527] 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.
528] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
529] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
530] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
531] 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.
532] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
533] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
534] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
535] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
536] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
537] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
538] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
539] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
540] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
541] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
542] 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
543] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
544] 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)
545] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
546] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
547] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
548] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
549] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
550] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
551] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
552] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
553] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
554] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
555] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
556] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
557] 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
558] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
559] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
560] 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)
561] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
562] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
563] 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
564] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
565] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
566] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
567] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
568] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
569] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
570] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
571] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
572] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
573] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
574] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
575] 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)
576] 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)
577] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
578] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
579] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
580] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
581] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
582] 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
583] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
584] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
585] 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.
586] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
587] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
588] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
589] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
590] 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)
591] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
592] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
593] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
594] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
595] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
596] 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
597] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
598] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
599] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
600] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)