Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
2] 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.
3] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
4] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
5] 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
6] 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.
7] 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.
8] 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
9] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
10] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
11] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
12] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
13] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
14] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
15] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
16] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
17] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
18] 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.
19] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
20] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
21] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
22] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
23] 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
24] 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.
25] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
26] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
27] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
28] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
29] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
30] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
31] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
32] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
33] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
34] 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.
35] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
36] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
37] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
38] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
39] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
40] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
41] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
42] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
43] 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
44] 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
45] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
46] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
47] 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.
48] 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.
49] 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)
50] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
51] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
52] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
53] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
54] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
55] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
56] 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.
57] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
58] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
59] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
60] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
61] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
62] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
63] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
64] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
65] 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.
66] 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
67] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
68] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
69] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
70] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
71] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
72] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
73] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
74] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
75] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
76] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
77] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
78] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
79] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
80] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
81] 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.
82] 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
83] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
84] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
85] 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.
86] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
87] 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.
88] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
89] 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)
90] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
91] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
92] 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.
93] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
94] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
95] 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
96] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
97] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
98] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
99] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
100] 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.
101] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
102] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
103] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
104] 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.
105] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
106] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
107] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
108] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
109] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
110] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
111] 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.
112] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
113] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
114] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
115] 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
116] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
117] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
118] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
119] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
120] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
121] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
122] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
123] 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.
124] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
125] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
126] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
127] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
128] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
129] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
130] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
131] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
132] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
133] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
134] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
135] 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.
136] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
137] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
138] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
139] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
140] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
141] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
142] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
143] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
144] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
145] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
146] 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
147] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
148] 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.
149] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
150] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
151] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
152] 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
153] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
154] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
155] 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.
156] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
157] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
158] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
159] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
160] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
161] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
162] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
163] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
164] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
165] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
166] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
167] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
168] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
169] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
170] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
171] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
172] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
173] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
174] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
175] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
176] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
177] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
178] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
179] 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
180] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
181] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
182] 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
183] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
184] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
185] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
186] 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)
187] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
188] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
189] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
190] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
191] 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.
192] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
193] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
194] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
195] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
196] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
197] 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)
198] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
199] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
200] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
201] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
202] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
203] 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)
204] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
205] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
206] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
207] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
208] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
209] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
210] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
211] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
212] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
213] 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
214] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
215] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
216] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
217] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
218] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
219] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
220] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
221] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
222] 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.
223] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
224] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
225] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
226] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
227] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
228] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
229] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
230] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
231] 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
232] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
233] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
234] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
235] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
236] 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).
237] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
238] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
239] 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)
240] 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.
241] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
242] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
243] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
244] 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.
245] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
246] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
247] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
248] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
249] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
250] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
251] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
252] 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)
253] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
254] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
255] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
256] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
257] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
258] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
259] 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.
260] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
261] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
262] 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.
263] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
264] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
265] 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.
266] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
267] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
268] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
269] 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
270] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
271] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
272] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
273] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
274] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
275] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
276] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
277] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
278] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
279] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
280] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
281] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
282] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
283] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
284] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
285] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
286] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
287] 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.
288] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
289] 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.
290] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
291] 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.
292] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
293] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
294] 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.
295] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
296] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
297] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
298] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
299] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
300] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
301] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
302] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
303] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
304] 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.
305] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
306] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
307] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
308] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
309] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
310] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
311] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
312] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
313] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
314] 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.
315] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
316] 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
317] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
318] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
319] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
320] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
321] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
322] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
323] 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)
324] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
325] 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.
326] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
327] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
328] 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)
329] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
330] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
331] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
332] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
333] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
334] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
335] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
336] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
337] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
338] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
339] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
340] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
341] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
342] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
343] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
344] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
345] 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.
346] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
347] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
348] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
349] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
350] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
351] 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.
352] Commonsense is not so common.
353] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
354] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
355] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
356] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
357] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
358] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
359] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
360] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
361] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
362] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
363] 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.
364] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
365] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
366] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
367] 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.
368] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
369] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
370] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
371] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
372] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
373] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
374] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
375] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
376] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
377] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
378] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
379] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
380] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
381] 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
382] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
383] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
384] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
385] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
386] 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
387] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
388] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
389] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
390] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
391] 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)
392] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
393] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
394] 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)
395] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
396] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
397] 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
398] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
399] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
400] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
401] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
402] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
403] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
404] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
405] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
406] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
407] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
408] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
409] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
410] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
411] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
412] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
413] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
414] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
415] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
416] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
417] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
418] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
419] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
420] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
421] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
422] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
423] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
424] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
425] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
426] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
427] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
428] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
429] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
430] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
431] 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.
432] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
433] 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
434] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
435] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
436] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
437] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
438] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
439] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
440] 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)
441] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
442] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
443] 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)
444] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
445] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
446] 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
447] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
448] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
449] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
450] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
451] 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
452] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
453] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
454] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
455] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
456] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
457] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
458] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
459] 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)
460] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
461] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
462] 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
463] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
464] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
465] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
466] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
467] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
468] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
469] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
470] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
471] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
472] 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.
473] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
474] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
475] 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.
476] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
477] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
478] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
479] 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.
480] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
481] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
482] 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
483] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
484] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
485] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
486] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
487] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
488] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
489] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
490] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
491] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
492] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
493] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
494] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
495] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
496] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
497] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
498] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
499] 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
500] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
501] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
502] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
503] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
504] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
505] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
506] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
507] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
508] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
509] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
510] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
511] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
512] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
513] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
514] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
515] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
516] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
517] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
518] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
519] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
520] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
521] 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 .
522] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
523] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
524] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
525] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
526] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
527] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
528] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
529] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
530] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
531] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
532] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
533] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
534] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
535] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
536] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
537] 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)
538] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
539] 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.
540] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
541] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
542] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
543] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
544] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
545] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
546] 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
547] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
548] 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
549] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
550] 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.
551] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
552] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
553] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
554] 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
555] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
556] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
557] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
558] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
559] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
560] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
561] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
562] 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.
563] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
564] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
565] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
566] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
567] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
568] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
569] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
570] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
571] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
572] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
573] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
574] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
575] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
576] 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)
577] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
578] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
579] 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.
580] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
581] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
582] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
583] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
584] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
585] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
586] 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.
587] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
588] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
589] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
590] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
591] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
592] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
593] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
594] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
595] 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
596] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
597] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
598] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
599] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
600] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.