Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
2] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
3] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
4] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
5] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
6] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
7] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
8] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
9] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
10] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
11] 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.
12] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
13] 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.
14] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
15] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
16] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
17] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
18] 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
19] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
20] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
21] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
22] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
23] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
24] 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
25] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
26] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
27] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
28] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
29] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
30] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
31] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
32] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
33] 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
34] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
35] 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
36] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
37] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
38] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
39] 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.
40] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
41] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
42] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
43] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
44] 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.
45] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
46] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
47] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
48] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
49] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
50] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
51] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
52] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
53] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
54] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
55] 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
56] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
57] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
58] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
59] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
60] 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.
61] 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.
62] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
63] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
64] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
65] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
66] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
67] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
68] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
69] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
70] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
71] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
72] 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.
73] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
74] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
75] 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)
76] 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.
77] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
78] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
79] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
80] 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
81] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
82] 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)
83] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
84] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
85] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
86] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
87] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
88] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
89] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
90] 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.
91] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
92] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
93] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
94] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
95] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
96] 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
97] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
98] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
99] 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.
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] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
102] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
103] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
104] 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.
105] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
106] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
107] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
108] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
109] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
110] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
111] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
112] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
113] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
114] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
115] 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)
116] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
117] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
118] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
119] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
120] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
121] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
122] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
123] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
124] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
125] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
126] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
127] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
128] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
129] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
130] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
131] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
132] 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
133] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
134] 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)
135] 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.
136] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
137] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
138] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
139] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
140] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
141] 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)
142] 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.
143] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
144] 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).
145] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
146] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
147] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
148] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
149] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
150] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
151] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
152] 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.
153] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
154] 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
155] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
156] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
157] 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.
158] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
159] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
160] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
161] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
162] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
163] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
164] 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.
165] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
166] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
167] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
168] 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
169] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
170] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
171] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
172] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
173] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
174] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
175] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
176] 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)
177] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
178] 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
179] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
180] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
181] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
182] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
183] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
184] 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.
185] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
186] 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.
187] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
188] 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)
189] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
190] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
191] 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.
192] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
193] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
194] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
195] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
196] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
197] 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
198] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
199] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
200] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
201] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
202] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
203] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
204] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
205] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
206] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
207] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
208] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
209] 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)
210] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
211] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
212] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
213] 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)
214] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
215] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
216] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
217] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
218] 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)
219] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
220] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
221] 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
222] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
223] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
224] 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.
225] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
226] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
227] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
228] 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.
229] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
230] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
231] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
232] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
233] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
234] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
235] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
236] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
237] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
238] 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.
239] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
240] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
241] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
242] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
243] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
244] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
245] 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.
246] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
247] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
248] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
249] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
250] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
251] 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.
252] 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
253] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
254] 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
255] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
256] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
257] 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.
258] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
259] 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
260] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
261] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
262] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
263] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
264] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
265] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
266] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
267] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
268] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
269] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
270] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
271] 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
272] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
273] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
274] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
275] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
276] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
277] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
278] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
279] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
280] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
281] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
282] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
283] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
284] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
285] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
286] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
287] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
288] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
289] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
290] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
291] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
292] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
293] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
294] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
295] 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
296] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
297] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
298] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
299] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
300] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
301] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
302] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
303] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
304] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
305] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
306] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
307] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
308] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
309] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
310] 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
311] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
312] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
313] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
314] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
315] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
316] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
317] Commonsense is not so common.
318] 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)
319] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
320] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
321] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
322] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
323] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
324] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
325] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
326] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
327] 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.
328] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
329] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
330] 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)
331] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
332] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
333] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
334] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
335] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
336] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
337] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
338] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
339] 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
340] 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.
341] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
342] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
343] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
344] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
345] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
346] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
347] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
348] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
349] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
350] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
351] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
352] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
353] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
354] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
355] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
356] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
357] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
358] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
359] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
360] 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)
361] 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.
362] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
363] 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.
364] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
365] 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)
366] 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.
367] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
368] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
369] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
370] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
371] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
372] 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
373] 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
374] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
375] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
376] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
377] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
378] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
379] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
380] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
381] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
382] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
383] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
384] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
385] 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.
386] 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)
387] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
388] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
389] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
390] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
391] 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).
392] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
393] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
394] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
395] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
396] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
397] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
398] 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.
399] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
400] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
401] 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.
402] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
403] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
404] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
405] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
406] 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
407] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
408] 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.
409] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
410] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
411] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
412] 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.
413] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
414] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
415] 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.
416] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
417] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
418] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
419] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
420] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
421] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
422] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
423] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
424] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
425] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
426] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
427] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
428] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
429] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
430] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
431] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
432] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
433] 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.”
434] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
435] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
436] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
437] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
438] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
439] 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.
440] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
441] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
442] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
443] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
444] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
445] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
446] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
447] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
448] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
449] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
450] 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.
451] 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
452] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
453] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
454] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
455] 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.
456] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
457] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
458] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
459] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
460] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
461] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
462] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
463] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
464] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
465] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
466] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
467] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
468] 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)
469] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
470] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
471] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
472] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
473] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
474] 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
475] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
476] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
477] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
478] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
479] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
480] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
481] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
482] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
483] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
484] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
485] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
486] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
487] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
488] 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.
489] 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
490] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
491] 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.
492] 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
493] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
494] 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.
495] 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)
496] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
497] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
498] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
499] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
500] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
501] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
502] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
503] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
504] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
505] 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.
506] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
507] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
508] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
509] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
510] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
511] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
512] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
513] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
514] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
515] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
516] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
517] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
518] 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.
519] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
520] 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.
521] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
522] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
523] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
524] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
525] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
526] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
527] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
528] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
529] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
530] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
531] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
532] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
533] 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
534] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
535] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
536] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
537] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
538] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
539] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
540] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
541] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
542] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
543] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
544] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
545] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
546] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
547] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
548] 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.
549] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
550] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
551] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
552] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
553] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
554] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
555] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
556] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
557] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
558] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
559] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
560] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
561] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
562] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
563] 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.
564] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
565] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
566] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
567] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
568] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
569] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
570] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
571] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
572] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
573] 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)
574] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
575] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
576] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
577] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
578] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
579] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
580] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
581] 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
582] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
583] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
584] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
585] 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)
586] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
587] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
588] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
589] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
590] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
591] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
592] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
593] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
594] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
595] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
596] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
597] 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.
598] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
599] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
600] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.