Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
2] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
3] 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
4] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
5] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
6] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
7] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
8] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
9] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
10] 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.
11] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
12] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
13] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
14] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
15] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
16] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
17] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
18] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
19] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
20] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
21] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
22] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
23] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
24] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
25] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
26] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
27] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
28] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
29] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
30] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
31] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
32] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
33] 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
34] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
35] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
36] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
37] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
38] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
39] 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
40] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
41] 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)
42] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
43] 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.
44] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
45] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
46] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
47] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
48] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
49] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
50] 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.
51] 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
52] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
53] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
54] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
55] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
56] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
57] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
58] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
59] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
60] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
61] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
62] 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)
63] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
64] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
65] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
66] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
67] 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)
68] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
69] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
70] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
71] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
72] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
73] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
74] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
75] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
76] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
77] 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
78] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
79] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
80] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
81] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
82] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
83] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
84] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
85] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
86] 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)
87] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
88] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
89] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
90] 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
91] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
92] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
93] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
94] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
95] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
96] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
97] 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)
98] 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.
99] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
100] 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
101] 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.
102] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
103] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
104] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
105] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
106] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
107] 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.
108] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
109] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
110] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
111] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
112] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
113] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
114] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
115] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
116] 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
117] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
118] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
119] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
120] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
121] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
122] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
123] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
124] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
125] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
126] 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
127] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
128] 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
129] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
130] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
131] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
132] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
133] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
134] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
135] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
136] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
137] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
138] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
139] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
140] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
141] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
142] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
143] 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
144] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
145] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
146] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
147] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
148] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
149] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
150] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
151] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
152] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
153] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
154] 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.
155] 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)
156] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
157] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
158] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
159] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
160] 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
161] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
162] 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)
163] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
164] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
165] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
166] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
167] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
168] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
169] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
170] 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.
171] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
172] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
173] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
174] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
175] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
176] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
177] 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
178] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
179] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
180] 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.
181] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
182] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
183] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
184] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
185] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
186] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
187] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
188] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
189] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
190] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
191] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
192] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
193] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
194] 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.
195] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
196] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
197] 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.
198] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
199] 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.
200] 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
201] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
202] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
203] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
204] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
205] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
206] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
207] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
208] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
209] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
210] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
211] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
212] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
213] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
214] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
215] 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)
216] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
217] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
218] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
219] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
220] 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
221] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
222] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
223] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
224] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
225] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
226] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
227] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
228] 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)
229] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
230] 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)
231] 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
232] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
233] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
234] 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.
235] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
236] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
237] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
238] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
239] 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
240] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
241] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
242] 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
243] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
244] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
245] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
246] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
247] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
248] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
249] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
250] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
251] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
252] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
253] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
254] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
255] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
256] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
257] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
258] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
259] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
260] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
261] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
262] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
263] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
264] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
265] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
266] 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.
267] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
268] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
269] 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.
270] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
271] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
272] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
273] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
274] 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.
275] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
276] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
277] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
278] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
279] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
280] 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.
281] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
282] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
283] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
284] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
285] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
286] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
287] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
288] 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.
289] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
290] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
291] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
292] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
293] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
294] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
295] 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
296] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
297] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
298] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
299] 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)
300] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
301] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
302] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
303] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
304] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
305] 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
306] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
307] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
308] 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.
309] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
310] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
311] 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.
312] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
313] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
314] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
315] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
316] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
317] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
318] 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
319] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
320] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
321] 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
322] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
323] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
324] 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)
325] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
326] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
327] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
328] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
329] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
330] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
331] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
332] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
333] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
334] 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 .
335] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
336] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
337] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
338] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
339] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
340] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
341] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
342] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
343] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
344] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
345] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
346] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
347] 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.
348] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
349] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
350] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
351] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
352] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
353] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
354] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
355] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
356] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
357] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
358] 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.
359] 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).
360] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
361] 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.
362] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
363] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
364] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
365] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
366] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
367] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
368] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
369] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
370] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
371] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
372] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
373] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
374] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
375] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
376] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
377] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
378] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
379] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
380] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
381] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
382] 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.
383] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
384] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
385] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
386] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
387] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
388] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
389] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
390] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
391] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
392] 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.
393] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
394] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
395] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
396] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
397] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
398] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
399] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
400] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
401] 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
402] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
403] 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
404] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
405] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
406] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
407] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
408] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
409] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
410] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
411] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
412] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
413] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
414] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
415] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
416] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
417] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
418] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
419] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
420] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
421] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
422] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
423] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
424] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
425] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
426] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
427] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
428] 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
429] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
430] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
431] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
432] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
433] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
434] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
435] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
436] 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
437] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
438] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
439] 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.
440] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
441] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
442] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
443] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
444] 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
445] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
446] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
447] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
448] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
449] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
450] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
451] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
452] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
453] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
454] 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.
455] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
456] 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
457] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
458] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
459] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
460] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
461] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
462] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
463] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
464] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
465] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
466] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
467] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
468] 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.
469] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
470] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
471] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
472] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
473] 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)
474] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
475] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
476] 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.
477] 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]
478] 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)
479] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
480] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
481] 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.
482] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
483] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
484] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
485] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
486] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
487] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
488] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
489] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
490] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
491] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
492] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
493] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
494] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
495] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
496] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
497] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
498] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
499] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
500] 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.
501] 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.
502] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
503] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
504] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
505] 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
506] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
507] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
508] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
509] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
510] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
511] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
512] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
513] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
514] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
515] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
516] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
517] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
518] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
519] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
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] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
522] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
523] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
524] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
525] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
526] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
527] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
528] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
529] 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.
530] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
531] 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)
532] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
533] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
534] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
535] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
536] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
537] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
538] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
539] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
540] 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.
541] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
542] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
543] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
544] 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
545] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
546] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
547] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
548] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
549] 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.
550] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
551] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
552] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
553] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
554] 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).
555] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
556] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
557] 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
558] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
559] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
560] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
561] 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
562] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
563] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
564] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
565] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
566] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
567] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
568] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
569] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
570] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
571] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
572] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
573] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
574] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
575] 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.
576] 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
577] 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.
578] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
579] 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
580] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
581] 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)
582] 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
583] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
584] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
585] 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)
586] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
587] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
588] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
589] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
590] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
591] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
592] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
593] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
594] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
595] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
596] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
597] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
598] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
599] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
600] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).