Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
2] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
3] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
4] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
5] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
6] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
7] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
8] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
9] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
10] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
11] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
12] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
13] 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)
14] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
15] 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).
16] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
17] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
18] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
19] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
20] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
21] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
22] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
23] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
24] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
25] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
26] 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.
27] 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)
28] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
29] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
30] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
31] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
32] 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
33] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
34] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
35] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
36] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
37] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
38] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
39] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
40] 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
41] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
42] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
43] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
44] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
45] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
46] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
47] 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.
48] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
49] 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.
50] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
51] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
52] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
53] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
54] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
55] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
56] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
57] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
58] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
59] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
60] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
61] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
62] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
63] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
64] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
65] 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
66] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
67] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
68] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
69] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
70] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
71] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
72] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
73] 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)
74] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
75] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
76] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
77] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
78] 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)
79] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
80] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
81] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
82] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
83] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
84] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
85] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
86] Commonsense is not so common.
87] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
88] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
89] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
90] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
91] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
92] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
93] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
94] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
95] 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
96] 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
97] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
98] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
99] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
100] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
101] 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
102] 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
103] 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)
104] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
105] 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.
106] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
107] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
108] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
109] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
110] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
111] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
112] 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.
113] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
114] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
115] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
116] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
117] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
118] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
119] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
120] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
121] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
122] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
123] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
124] 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.
125] 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
126] 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.
127] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
128] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
129] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
130] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
131] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
132] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
133] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
134] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
135] 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
136] 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.
137] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
138] 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)
139] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
140] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
141] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
142] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
143] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
144] 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
145] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
146] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
147] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
148] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
149] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
150] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
151] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
152] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
153] 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
154] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
155] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
156] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
157] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
158] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
159] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
160] 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)
161] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
162] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
163] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
164] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
165] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
166] 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
167] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
168] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
169] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
170] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
171] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
172] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
173] 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
174] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
175] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
176] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
177] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
178] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
179] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
180] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
181] 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
182] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
183] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
184] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
185] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
186] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
187] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
188] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
189] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
190] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
191] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
192] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
193] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
194] 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
195] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
196] 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
197] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
198] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
199] 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
200] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
201] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
202] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
203] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
204] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
205] 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
206] 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.
207] 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
208] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
209] 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
210] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
211] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
212] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
213] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
214] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
215] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
216] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
217] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
218] 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
219] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
220] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
221] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
222] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
223] 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.
224] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
225] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
226] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
227] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
228] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
229] 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.
230] 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.
231] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
232] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
233] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
234] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
235] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
236] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
237] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
238] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
239] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
240] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
241] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
242] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
243] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
244] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
245] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
246] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
247] 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
248] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
249] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
250] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
251] 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)
252] 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
253] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
254] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
255] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
256] 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)
257] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
258] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
259] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
260] 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)
261] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
262] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
263] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
264] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
265] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
266] 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)
267] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
268] 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)
269] 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
270] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
271] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
272] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
273] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
274] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
275] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
276] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
277] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
278] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
279] 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
280] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
281] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
282] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
283] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
284] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
285] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
286] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
287] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
288] 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)
289] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
290] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
291] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
292] 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)
293] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
294] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
295] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
296] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
297] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
298] 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
299] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
300] 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
301] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
302] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
303] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
304] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
305] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
306] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
307] 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
308] 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.
309] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
310] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
311] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
312] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
313] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
314] 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.
315] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
316] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
317] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
318] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
319] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
320] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
321] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
322] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
323] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
324] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
325] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
326] 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.
327] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
328] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
329] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
330] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
331] 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.
332] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
333] 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.
334] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
335] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
336] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
337] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
338] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
339] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
340] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
341] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
342] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
343] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
344] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
345] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
346] 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.
347] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
348] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
349] 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
350] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
351] 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
352] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
353] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
354] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
355] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
356] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
357] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
358] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
359] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
360] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
361] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
362] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
363] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
364] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
365] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
366] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
367] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
368] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
369] 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.
370] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
371] 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.
372] 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
373] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
374] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
375] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
376] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
377] 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
378] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
379] 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.
380] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
381] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
382] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
383] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
384] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
385] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
386] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
387] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
388] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
389] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
390] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
391] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
392] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
393] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
394] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
395] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
396] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
397] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
398] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
399] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
400] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
401] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
402] 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
403] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
404] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
405] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
406] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
407] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
408] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
409] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
410] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
411] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
412] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
413] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
414] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
415] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
416] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
417] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
418] 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
419] 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
420] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
421] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
422] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
423] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
424] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
425] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
426] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
427] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
428] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
429] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
430] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
431] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
432] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
433] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
434] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
435] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
436] 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.
437] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
438] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
439] 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.
440] 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]
441] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
442] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
443] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
444] 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
445] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
446] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
447] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
448] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
449] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
450] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
451] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
452] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
453] 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
454] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
455] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
456] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
457] 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.
458] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
459] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
460] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
461] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
462] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
463] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
464] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
465] 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.
466] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
467] 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.
468] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
469] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
470] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
471] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
472] 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)
473] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
474] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
475] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
476] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
477] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
478] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
479] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
480] 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.
481] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
482] 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.
483] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
484] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
485] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
486] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
487] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
488] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
489] 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.
490] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
491] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
492] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
493] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
494] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
495] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
496] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
497] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
498] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
499] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
500] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
501] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
502] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
503] 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
504] 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.
505] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
506] 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.
507] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
508] 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
509] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
510] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
511] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
512] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
513] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
514] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
515] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
516] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
517] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
518] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
519] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
520] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
521] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
522] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
523] 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.”
524] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
525] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
526] 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.
527] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
528] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
529] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
530] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
531] 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
532] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
533] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
534] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
535] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
536] 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.
537] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
538] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
539] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
540] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
541] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
542] 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
543] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
544] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
545] 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
546] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
547] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
548] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
549] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
550] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
551] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
552] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
553] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
554] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
555] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
556] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
557] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
558] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
559] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
560] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
561] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
562] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
563] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
564] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
565] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
566] 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)
567] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
568] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
569] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
570] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
571] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
572] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
573] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
574] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
575] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
576] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
577] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
578] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
579] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
580] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
581] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
582] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
583] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
584] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
585] 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)
586] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
587] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
588] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
589] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
590] 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)
591] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
592] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
593] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
594] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
595] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
596] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
597] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
598] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
599] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
600] 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