Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
2] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
3] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
4] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
5] 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.
6] 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.
7] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
8] 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)
9] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
10] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
11] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
12] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
13] Commonsense is not so common.
14] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
15] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
16] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
17] 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.
18] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
19] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
20] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
21] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
22] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
23] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
24] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
25] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
26] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
27] 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.
28] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
29] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
30] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
31] 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)
32] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
33] 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
34] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
35] 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).
36] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
37] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
38] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
39] 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
40] 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
41] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
42] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
43] 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.
44] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
45] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
46] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
47] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
48] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
49] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
50] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
51] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
52] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
53] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
54] 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.
55] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
56] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
57] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
58] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
59] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
60] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
61] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
62] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
63] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
64] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
65] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
66] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
67] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
68] 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).
69] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
70] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
71] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
72] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
73] 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.
74] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
75] 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.
76] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
77] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
78] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
79] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
80] 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.
81] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
82] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
83] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
84] 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.
85] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
86] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
87] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
88] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
89] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
90] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
91] 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.
92] 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.
93] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
94] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
95] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
96] 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.
97] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
98] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
99] 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)
100] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
101] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
102] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
103] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
104] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
105] 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.
106] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
107] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
108] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
109] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
110] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
111] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
112] 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)
113] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
114] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
115] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
116] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
117] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
118] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
119] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
120] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
121] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
122] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
123] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
124] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
125] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
126] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
127] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
128] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
129] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
130] 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.
131] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
132] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
133] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
134] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
135] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
136] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
137] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
138] 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
139] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
140] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
141] 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)
142] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
143] 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)
144] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
145] 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.
146] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
147] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
148] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
149] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
150] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
151] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
152] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
153] 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.
154] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
155] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
156] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
157] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
158] Commonsense is not so common.
159] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
160] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
161] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
162] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
163] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
164] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
165] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
166] 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
167] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
168] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
169] 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.
170] 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)
171] 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.
172] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
173] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
174] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
175] 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.
176] 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
177] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
178] 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.
179] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
180] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
181] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
182] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
183] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
184] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
185] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
186] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
187] 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.
188] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
189] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
190] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
191] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
192] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
193] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
194] 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.
195] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
196] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
197] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
198] 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
199] 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.
200] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
201] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
202] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
203] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
204] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
205] 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)
206] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
207] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
208] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
209] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
210] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
211] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
212] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
213] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
214] 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.
215] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
216] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
217] 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
218] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
219] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
220] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
221] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
222] 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
223] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
224] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
225] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
226] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
227] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
228] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
229] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
230] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
231] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
232] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
233] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
234] 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)
235] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
236] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
237] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
238] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
239] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
240] 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.
241] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
242] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
243] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
244] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
245] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
246] 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.
247] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
248] 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
249] 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)
250] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
251] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
252] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
253] 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
254] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
255] 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.
256] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
257] 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.
258] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
259] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
260] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
261] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
262] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
263] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
264] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
265] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
266] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
267] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
268] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
269] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
270] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
271] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
272] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
273] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
274] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
275] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
276] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
277] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
278] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
279] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
280] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
281] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
282] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
283] 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
284] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
285] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
286] 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.
287] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
288] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
289] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
290] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
291] 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.
292] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
293] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
294] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
295] 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
296] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
297] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
298] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
299] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
300] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
301] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
302] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
303] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
304] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
305] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
306] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
307] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
308] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
309] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
310] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
311] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
312] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
313] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
314] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
315] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
316] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
317] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
318] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
319] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
320] 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
321] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
322] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
323] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
324] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
325] 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.
326] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
327] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
328] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
329] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
330] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
331] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
332] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
333] 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.
334] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
335] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
336] 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.
337] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
338] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
339] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
340] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
341] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
342] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
343] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
344] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
345] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
346] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
347] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
348] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
349] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
350] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
351] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
352] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
353] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
354] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
355] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
356] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
357] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
358] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
359] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
360] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
361] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
362] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
363] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
364] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
365] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
366] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
367] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
368] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
369] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
370] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
371] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
372] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
373] 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.
374] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
375] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
376] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
377] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
378] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
379] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
380] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
381] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
382] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
383] 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.
384] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
385] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
386] 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)
387] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
388] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
389] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
390] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
391] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
392] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
393] 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)
394] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
395] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
396] 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
397] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
398] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
399] 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.
400] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
401] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
402] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
403] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
404] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
405] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
406] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
407] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
408] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
409] 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
410] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
411] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
412] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
413] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
414] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
415] 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)
416] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
417] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
418] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
419] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
420] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
421] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
422] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
423] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
424] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
425] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
426] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
427] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
428] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
429] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
430] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
431] 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.
432] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
433] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
434] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
435] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
436] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
437] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
438] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
439] 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
440] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
441] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
442] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
443] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
444] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
445] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
446] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
447] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
448] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
449] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
450] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
451] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
452] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
453] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
454] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
455] 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)
456] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
457] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
458] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
459] 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
460] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
461] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
462] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
463] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
464] 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.
465] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
466] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
467] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
468] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
469] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
470] 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
471] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
472] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
473] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
474] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
475] 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
476] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
477] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
478] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
479] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
480] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
481] 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.
482] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
483] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
484] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
485] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
486] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
487] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
488] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
489] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
490] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
491] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
492] 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.
493] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
494] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
495] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
496] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
497] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
498] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
499] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
500] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
501] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
502] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
503] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
504] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
505] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
506] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
507] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
508] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
509] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
510] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
511] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
512] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
513] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
514] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
515] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
516] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
517] 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
518] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
519] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
520] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
521] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
522] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
523] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
524] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
525] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
526] 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.
527] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
528] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
529] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
530] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
531] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
532] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
533] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
534] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
535] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
536] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
537] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
538] 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.
539] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
540] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
541] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
542] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
543] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
544] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
545] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
546] 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.
547] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
548] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
549] 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
550] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
551] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
552] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
553] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
554] 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.
555] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
556] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
557] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
558] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
559] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
560] 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.
561] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
562] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
563] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
564] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
565] 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
566] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
567] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
568] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
569] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
570] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
571] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
572] 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
573] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
574] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
575] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
576] 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
577] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
578] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
579] 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
580] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
581] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
582] 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.
583] 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.
584] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
585] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
586] 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.
587] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
588] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
589] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
590] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
591] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
592] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
593] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
594] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
595] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
596] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
597] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
598] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
599] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
600] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow