Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
2] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
3] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
4] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
5] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
6] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
7] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
8] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
9] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
10] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
11] 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.
12] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
13] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
14] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
15] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
16] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
17] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
18] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
19] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
20] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
21] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
22] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
23] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
24] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
25] 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.
26] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
27] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
28] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
29] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
30] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
31] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
32] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
33] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
34] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
35] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
36] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
37] 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.
38] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
39] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
40] 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)
41] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
42] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
43] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
44] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
45] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
46] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
47] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
48] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
49] 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
50] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
51] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
52] 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.
53] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
54] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
55] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
56] 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
57] 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
58] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
59] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
60] 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
61] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
62] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
63] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
64] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
65] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
66] 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.
67] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
68] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
69] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
70] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
71] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
72] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
73] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
74] 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.
75] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
76] 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.
77] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
78] 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)
79] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
80] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
81] 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.
82] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
83] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
84] 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
85] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
86] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
87] 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
88] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
89] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
90] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
91] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
92] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
93] 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.
94] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
95] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
96] 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.
97] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
98] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
99] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
100] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
101] 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.
102] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
103] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
104] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
105] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
106] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
107] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
108] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
109] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
110] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
111] 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).
112] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
113] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
114] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
115] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
116] 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
117] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
118] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
119] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
120] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
121] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
122] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
123] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
124] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
125] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
126] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
127] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
128] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
129] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
130] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
131] 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
132] 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.
133] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
134] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
135] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
136] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
137] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
138] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
139] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
140] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
141] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
142] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
143] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
144] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
145] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
146] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
147] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
148] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
149] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
150] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
151] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
152] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
153] 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
154] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
155] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
156] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
157] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
158] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
159] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
160] 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.
161] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
162] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
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] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
165] 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.
166] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
167] 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.
168] 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
169] 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)
170] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
171] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
172] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
173] 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.
174] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
175] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
176] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
177] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
178] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
179] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
180] 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.
181] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
182] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
183] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
184] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
185] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
186] 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.
187] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
188] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
189] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
190] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
191] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
192] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
193] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
194] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
195] 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.
196] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
197] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
198] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
199] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
200] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
201] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
202] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
203] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
204] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
205] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
206] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
207] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
208] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
209] 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
210] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
211] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
212] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
213] 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
214] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
215] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
216] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
217] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
218] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
219] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
220] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
221] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
222] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
223] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
224] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
225] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
226] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
227] 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.
228] 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
229] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
230] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
231] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
232] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
233] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
234] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
235] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
236] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
237] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
238] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
239] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
240] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
241] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
242] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
243] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
244] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
245] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
246] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
247] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
248] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
249] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
250] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
251] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
252] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
253] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
254] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
255] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
256] 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
257] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
258] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
259] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
260] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
261] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
262] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
263] 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)
264] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
265] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
266] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
267] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
268] 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.
269] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
270] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
271] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
272] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
273] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
274] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
275] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
276] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
277] 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.
278] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
279] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
280] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
281] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
282] 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)
283] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
284] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
285] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
286] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
287] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
288] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
289] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
290] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
291] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
292] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
293] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
294] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
295] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
296] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
297] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
298] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
299] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
300] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
301] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
302] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
303] 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.
304] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
305] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
306] 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.
307] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
308] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
309] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
310] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
311] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
312] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
313] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
314] 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)
315] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
316] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
317] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
318] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
319] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
320] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
321] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
322] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
323] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
324] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
325] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
326] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
327] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
328] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
329] 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
330] 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
331] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
332] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
333] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
334] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
335] 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
336] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
337] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
338] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
339] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
340] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
341] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
342] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
343] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
344] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
345] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
346] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
347] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
348] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
349] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
350] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
351] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
352] 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.
353] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
354] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
355] 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)
356] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
357] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
358] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
359] 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
360] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
361] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
362] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
363] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
364] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
365] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
366] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
367] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
368] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
369] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
370] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
371] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
372] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
373] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
374] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
375] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
376] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
377] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
378] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
379] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
380] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
381] 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
382] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
383] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
384] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
385] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
386] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
387] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
388] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
389] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
390] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
391] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
392] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
393] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
394] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
395] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
396] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
397] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
398] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
399] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
400] 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.
401] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
402] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
403] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
404] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
405] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
406] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
407] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
408] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
409] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
410] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
411] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
412] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
413] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
414] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
415] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
416] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
417] 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)
418] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
419] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
420] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
421] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
422] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
423] 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
424] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
425] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
426] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
427] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
428] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
429] 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.
430] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
431] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
432] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
433] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
434] 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
435] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
436] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
437] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
438] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
439] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
440] 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.
441] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
442] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
443] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
444] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
445] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
446] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
447] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
448] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
449] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
450] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
451] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
452] 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.
453] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
454] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
455] 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.
456] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
457] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
458] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
459] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
460] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
461] 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)
462] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
463] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
464] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
465] 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.
466] 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
467] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
468] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
469] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
470] 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
471] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
472] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
473] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
474] 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.
475] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
476] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
477] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
478] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
479] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
480] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
481] 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.
482] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
483] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
484] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
485] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
486] 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.
487] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
488] 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)
489] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
490] 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
491] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
492] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
493] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
494] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
495] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
496] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
497] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
498] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
499] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
500] 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.
501] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
502] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
503] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
504] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
505] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
506] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
507] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
508] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
509] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
510] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
511] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
512] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
513] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
514] 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
515] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
516] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
517] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
518] 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
519] 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.
520] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
521] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
522] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
523] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
524] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
525] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
526] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
527] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
528] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
529] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
530] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
531] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
532] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
533] 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)
534] 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)
535] 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)
536] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
537] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
538] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
539] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
540] 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)
541] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
542] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
543] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
544] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
545] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
546] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
547] 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.
548] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
549] 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
550] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
551] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
552] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
553] 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.
554] 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.
555] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
556] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
557] 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
558] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
559] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
560] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
561] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
562] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
563] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
564] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
565] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
566] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
567] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
568] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
569] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
570] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
571] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
572] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
573] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
574] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
575] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
576] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
577] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
578] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
579] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
580] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
581] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
582] 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.
583] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
584] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
585] 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
586] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
587] 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.
588] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
589] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
590] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
591] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
592] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
593] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
594] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
595] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
596] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
597] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
598] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
599] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
600] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.