Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
2] 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)
3] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
4] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
5] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
6] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
7] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
8] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
9] 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
10] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
11] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
12] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
13] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
14] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
15] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
16] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
17] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
18] 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).
19] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
20] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
21] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
22] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
23] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
24] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
25] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
26] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
27] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
28] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
29] 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.
30] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
31] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
32] 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)
33] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
34] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
35] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
36] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
37] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
38] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
39] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
40] 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
41] 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.
42] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
43] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
44] 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
45] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
46] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
47] 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
48] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
49] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
50] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
51] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
52] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
53] 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.
54] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
55] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
56] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
57] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
58] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
59] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
60] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
61] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
62] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
63] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
64] 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
65] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
66] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
67] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
68] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
69] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
70] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
71] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
72] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
73] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
74] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
75] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
76] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
77] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
78] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
79] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
80] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
81] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
82] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
83] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
84] 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
85] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
86] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
87] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
88] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
89] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
90] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
91] 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.
92] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
93] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
94] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
95] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
96] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
97] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
98] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
99] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
100] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
101] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
102] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
103] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
104] 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.
105] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
106] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
107] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
108] 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]
109] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
110] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
111] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
112] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
113] 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.
114] 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)
115] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
116] 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.
117] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
118] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
119] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
120] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
121] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
122] 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
123] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
124] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
125] 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.
126] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
127] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
128] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
129] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
130] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
131] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
132] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
133] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
134] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
135] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
136] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
137] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
138] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
139] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
140] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
141] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
142] 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.
143] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
144] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
145] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
146] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
147] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
148] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
149] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
150] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
151] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
152] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
153] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
154] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
155] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
156] 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)
157] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
158] 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
159] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
160] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
161] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
162] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
163] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
164] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
165] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
166] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
167] 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.
168] 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)
169] 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.
170] 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.
171] 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
172] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
173] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
174] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
175] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
176] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
177] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
178] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
179] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
180] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
181] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
182] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
183] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
184] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
185] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
186] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
187] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
188] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
189] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
190] 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.
191] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
192] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
193] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
194] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
195] 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
196] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
197] 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
198] 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.
199] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
200] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
201] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
202] 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.
203] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
204] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
205] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
206] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
207] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
208] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
209] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
210] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
211] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
212] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
213] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
214] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
215] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
216] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
217] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
218] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
219] 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)
220] 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.
221] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
222] 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.
223] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
224] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
225] 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.
226] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
227] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
228] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
229] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
230] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
231] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
232] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
233] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
234] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
235] 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
236] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
237] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
238] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
239] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
240] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
241] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
242] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
243] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
244] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
245] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
246] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
247] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
248] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
249] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
250] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
251] 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.
252] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
253] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
254] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
255] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
256] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
257] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
258] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
259] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
260] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
261] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
262] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
263] 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
264] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
265] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
266] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
267] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
268] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
269] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
270] 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
271] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
272] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
273] 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.
274] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
275] 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)
276] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
277] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
278] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
279] 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.
280] 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
281] 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.
282] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
283] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
284] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
285] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
286] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
287] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
288] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
289] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
290] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
291] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
292] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
293] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
294] 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.
295] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
296] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
297] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
298] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
299] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
300] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
301] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
302] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
303] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
304] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
305] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
306] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
307] 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
308] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
309] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
310] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
311] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
312] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
313] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
314] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
315] 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)
316] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
317] 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.
318] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
319] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
320] 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
321] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
322] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
323] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
324] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
325] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
326] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
327] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
328] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
329] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
330] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
331] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
332] 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
333] 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
334] 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.
335] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
336] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
337] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
338] 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.
339] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
340] 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
341] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
342] 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)
343] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
344] 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
345] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
346] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
347] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
348] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
349] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
350] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
351] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
352] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
353] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
354] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
355] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
356] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
357] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
358] 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
359] 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.
360] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
361] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
362] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
363] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
364] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
365] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
366] 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.
367] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
368] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
369] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
370] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
371] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
372] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
373] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
374] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
375] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
376] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
377] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
378] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
379] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
380] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
381] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
382] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
383] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
384] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
385] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
386] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
387] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
388] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
389] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
390] 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)
391] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
392] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
393] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
394] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
395] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
396] 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.
397] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
398] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
399] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
400] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
401] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
402] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
403] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
404] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
405] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
406] 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.
407] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
408] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
409] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
410] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
411] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
412] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
413] 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.
414] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
415] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
416] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
417] 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
418] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
419] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
420] 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
421] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
422] 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.
423] 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 .
424] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
425] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
426] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
427] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
428] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
429] 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.
430] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
431] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
432] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
433] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
434] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
435] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
436] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
437] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
438] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
439] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
440] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
441] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
442] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
443] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
444] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
445] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
446] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
447] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
448] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
449] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
450] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
451] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
452] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
453] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
454] 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.
455] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
456] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
457] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
458] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
459] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
460] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
461] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
462] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
463] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
464] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
465] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
466] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
467] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
468] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
469] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
470] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
471] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
472] 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
473] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
474] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
475] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
476] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
477] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
478] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
479] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
480] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
481] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
482] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
483] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
484] 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.
485] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
486] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
487] 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.
488] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
489] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
490] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
491] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
492] 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.
493] 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
494] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
495] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
496] 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.
497] 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
498] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
499] 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.
500] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
501] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
502] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
503] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
504] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
505] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
506] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
507] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
508] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
509] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
510] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
511] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
512] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
513] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
514] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
515] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
516] 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)
517] 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.
518] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
519] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
520] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
521] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
522] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
523] 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)
524] 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.
525] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
526] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
527] 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)
528] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
529] 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.
530] 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
531] 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.
532] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
533] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
534] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
535] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
536] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
537] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
538] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
539] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
540] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
541] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
542] 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
543] 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.
544] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
545] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
546] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
547] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
548] 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.
549] 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)
550] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
551] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
552] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
553] 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.
554] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
555] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
556] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
557] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
558] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
559] 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.
560] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
561] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
562] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
563] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
564] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
565] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
566] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
567] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
568] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
569] 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
570] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
571] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
572] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
573] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
574] 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.
575] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
576] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
577] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
578] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
579] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
580] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
581] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
582] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
583] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
584] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
585] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
586] 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)
587] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
588] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
589] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
590] 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
591] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
592] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
593] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
594] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
595] 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)
596] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
597] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
598] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
599] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
600] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle