Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
2] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
3] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
4] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
5] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
6] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
7] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
8] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
9] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
10] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
11] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
12] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
13] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
14] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
15] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
16] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
17] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
18] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
19] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
20] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
21] 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)
22] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
23] 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
24] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
25] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
26] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
27] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
28] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
29] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
30] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
31] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
32] 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
33] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
34] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
35] 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
36] 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
37] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
38] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
39] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
40] 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.
41] 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.
42] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
43] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
44] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
45] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
46] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
47] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
48] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
49] 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.
50] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
51] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
52] 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
53] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
54] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
55] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
56] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
57] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
58] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
59] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
60] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
61] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
62] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
63] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
64] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
65] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
66] 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)
67] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
68] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
69] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
70] 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
71] 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
72] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
73] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
74] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
75] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
76] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
77] 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.
78] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
79] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
80] 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.
81] 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
82] 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
83] 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
84] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
85] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
86] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
87] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
88] 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
89] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
90] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
91] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
92] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
93] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
94] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
95] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
96] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
97] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
98] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
99] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
100] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
101] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
102] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
103] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
104] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
105] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
106] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
107] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
108] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
109] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
110] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
111] 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
112] 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
113] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
114] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
115] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
116] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
117] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
118] 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.
119] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
120] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
121] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
122] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
123] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
124] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
125] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
126] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
127] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
128] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
129] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
130] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
131] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
132] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
133] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
134] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
135] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
136] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
137] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
138] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
139] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
140] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
141] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
142] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
143] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
144] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
145] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
146] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
147] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
148] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
149] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
150] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
151] 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
152] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
153] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
154] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
155] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
156] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
157] 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)
158] 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.
159] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
160] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
161] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
162] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
163] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
164] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
165] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
166] 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.
167] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
168] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
169] 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
170] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
171] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
172] 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)
173] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
174] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
175] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
176] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
177] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
178] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
179] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
180] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
181] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
182] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
183] 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)
184] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
185] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
186] 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
187] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
188] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
189] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
190] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
191] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
192] 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.
193] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
194] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
195] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
196] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
197] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
198] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
199] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
200] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
201] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
202] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
203] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
204] 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.
205] 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.
206] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
207] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
208] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
209] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
210] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
211] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
212] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
213] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
214] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
215] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
216] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
217] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
218] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
219] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
220] 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.
221] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
222] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
223] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
224] 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.
225] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
226] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
227] 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.
228] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
229] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
230] 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)
231] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
232] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
233] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
234] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
235] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
236] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
237] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
238] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
239] 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
240] 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.
241] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
242] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
243] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
244] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
245] 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.
246] 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
247] 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
248] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
249] 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
250] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
251] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
252] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
253] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
254] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
255] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
256] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
257] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
258] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
259] 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)
260] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
261] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
262] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
263] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
264] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
265] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
266] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
267] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
268] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
269] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
270] 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.
271] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
272] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
273] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
274] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
275] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
276] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
277] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
278] 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)
279] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
280] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
281] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
282] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
283] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
284] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
285] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
286] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
287] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
288] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
289] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
290] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
291] 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.
292] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
293] 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.
294] 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.
295] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
296] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
297] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
298] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
299] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
300] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
301] 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.
302] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
303] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
304] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
305] 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
306] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
307] 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).
308] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
309] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
310] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
311] 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)
312] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
313] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
314] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
315] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
316] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
317] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
318] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
319] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
320] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
321] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
322] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
323] 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)
324] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
325] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
326] 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.
327] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
328] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
329] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
330] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
331] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
332] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
333] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
334] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
335] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
336] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
337] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
338] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
339] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
340] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
341] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
342] 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.
343] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
344] 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
345] 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
346] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
347] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
348] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
349] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
350] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
351] 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
352] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
353] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
354] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
355] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
356] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
357] 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).
358] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
359] 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
360] 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)
361] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
362] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
363] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
364] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
365] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
366] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
367] 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.
368] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
369] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
370] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
371] 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.
372] Commonsense is not so common.
373] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
374] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
375] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
376] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
377] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
378] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
379] 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
380] Commonsense is not so common.
381] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
382] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
383] 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)
384] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
385] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
386] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
387] 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
388] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
389] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
390] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
391] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
392] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
393] 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]
394] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
395] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
396] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
397] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
398] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
399] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
400] 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.
401] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
402] 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.
403] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
404] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
405] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
406] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
407] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
408] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
409] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
410] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
411] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
412] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
413] 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
414] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
415] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
416] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
417] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
418] 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)
419] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
420] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
421] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
422] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
423] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
424] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
425] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
426] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
427] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
428] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
429] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
430] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
431] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
432] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
433] 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.
434] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
435] 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.
436] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
437] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
438] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
439] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
440] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
441] 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
442] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
443] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
444] 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
445] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
446] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
447] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
448] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
449] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
450] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
451] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
452] 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)
453] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
454] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
455] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
456] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
457] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
458] 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
459] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
460] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
461] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
462] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
463] 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
464] 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.
465] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
466] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
467] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
468] 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.
469] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
470] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
471] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
472] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
473] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
474] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
475] 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
476] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
477] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
478] 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)
479] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
480] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
481] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
482] 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
483] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
484] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
485] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
486] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
487] 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.
488] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
489] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
490] 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.
491] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
492] 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.
493] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
494] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
495] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
496] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
497] 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)
498] 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
499] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
500] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
501] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
502] 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
503] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
504] 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
505] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
506] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
507] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
508] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
509] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
510] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
511] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
512] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
513] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
514] 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.
515] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
516] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
517] 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
518] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
519] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
520] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
521] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
522] 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
523] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
524] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
525] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
526] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
527] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
528] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
529] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
530] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
531] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
532] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
533] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
534] 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.
535] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
536] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
537] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
538] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
539] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
540] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
541] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
542] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
543] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
544] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
545] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
546] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
547] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
548] 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.
549] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
550] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
551] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
552] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
553] 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.
554] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
555] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
556] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
557] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
558] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
559] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
560] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
561] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
562] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
563] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
564] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
565] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
566] 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.
567] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
568] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
569] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
570] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
571] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
572] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
573] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
574] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
575] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
576] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
577] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
578] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
579] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
580] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
581] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
582] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
583] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
584] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
585] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
586] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
587] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
588] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
589] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
590] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
591] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
592] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
593] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
594] 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.
595] 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
596] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
597] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
598] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
599] 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
600] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.