Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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
2] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
3] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
4] 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
5] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
6] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
7] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
8] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
9] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
10] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
11] 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.
12] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
13] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
14] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
15] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
16] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
17] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
18] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
19] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
20] 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.
21] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
22] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
23] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
24] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
25] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
26] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
27] 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
28] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
29] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
30] 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.
31] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
32] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
33] 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
34] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
35] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
36] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
37] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
38] 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
39] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
40] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
41] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
42] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
43] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
44] 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
45] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
46] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
47] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
48] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
49] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
50] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
51] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
52] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
53] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
54] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
55] 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.
56] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
57] 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
58] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
59] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
60] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
61] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
62] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
63] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
64] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
65] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
66] 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.
67] 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
68] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
69] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
70] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
71] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
72] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
73] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
74] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
75] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
76] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
77] 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)
78] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
79] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
80] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
81] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
82] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
83] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
84] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
85] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
86] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
87] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
88] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
89] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
90] 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
91] 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)
92] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
93] 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)
94] 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
95] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
96] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
97] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
98] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
99] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
100] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
101] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
102] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
103] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
104] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
105] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
106] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
107] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
108] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
109] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
110] 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)
111] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
112] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
113] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
114] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
115] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
116] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
117] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
118] 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.
119] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
120] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
121] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
122] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
123] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
124] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
125] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
126] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
127] 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
128] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
129] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
130] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
131] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
132] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
133] 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.
134] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
135] 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.
136] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
137] 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.
138] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
139] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
140] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
141] 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.
142] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
143] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
144] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
145] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
146] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
147] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
148] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
149] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
150] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
151] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
152] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
153] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
154] 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.
155] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
156] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
157] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
158] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
159] 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
160] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
161] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
162] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
163] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
164] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
165] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
166] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
167] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
168] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
169] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
170] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
171] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
172] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
173] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
174] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
175] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
176] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
177] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
178] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
179] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
180] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
181] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
182] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
183] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
184] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
185] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
186] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
187] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
188] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
189] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
190] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
191] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
192] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
193] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
194] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
195] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
196] 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
197] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
198] 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.
199] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
200] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
201] 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.
202] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
203] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
204] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
205] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
206] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
207] 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.
208] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
209] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
210] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
211] 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.
212] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
213] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
214] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
215] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
216] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
217] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
218] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
219] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
220] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
221] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
222] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
223] 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.
224] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
225] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
226] 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
227] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
228] 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
229] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
230] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
231] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
232] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
233] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
234] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
235] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
236] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
237] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
238] 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.
239] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
240] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
241] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
242] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
243] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
244] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
245] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
246] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
247] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
248] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
249] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
250] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
251] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
252] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
253] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
254] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
255] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
256] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
257] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
258] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
259] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
260] 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.
261] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
262] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
263] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
264] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
265] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
266] 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)
267] 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
268] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
269] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
270] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
271] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
272] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
273] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
274] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
275] 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.
276] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
277] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
278] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
279] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
280] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
281] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
282] 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
283] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
284] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
285] 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
286] 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.
287] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
288] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
289] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
290] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
291] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
292] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
293] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
294] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
295] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
296] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
297] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
298] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
299] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
300] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
301] 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.
302] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
303] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
304] 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
305] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
306] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
307] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
308] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
309] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
310] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
311] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
312] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
313] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
314] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
315] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
316] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
317] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
318] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
319] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
320] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
321] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
322] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
323] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
324] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
325] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
326] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
327] 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
328] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
329] 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)
330] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
331] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
332] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
333] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
334] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
335] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
336] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
337] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
338] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
339] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
340] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
341] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
342] 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.
343] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
344] 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
345] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
346] 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
347] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
348] 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).
349] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
350] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
351] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
352] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
353] 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)
354] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
355] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
356] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
357] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
358] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
359] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
360] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
361] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
362] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
363] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
364] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
365] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
366] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
367] 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.
368] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
369] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
370] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
371] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
372] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
373] 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
374] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
375] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
376] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
377] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
378] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
379] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
380] 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)
381] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
382] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
383] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
384] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
385] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
386] 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.
387] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
388] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
389] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
390] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
391] 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.
392] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
393] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
394] 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.
395] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
396] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
397] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
398] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
399] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
400] 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.
401] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
402] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
403] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
404] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
405] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
406] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
407] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
408] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
409] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
410] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
411] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
412] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
413] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
414] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
415] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
416] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
417] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
418] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
419] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
420] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
421] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
422] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
423] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
424] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
425] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
426] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
427] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
428] 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.
429] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
430] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
431] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
432] 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.
433] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
434] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
435] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
436] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
437] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
438] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
439] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
440] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
441] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
442] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
443] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
444] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
445] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
446] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
447] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
448] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
449] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
450] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
451] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
452] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
453] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
454] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
455] 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)
456] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
457] 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.
458] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
459] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
460] 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.
461] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
462] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
463] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
464] 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
465] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
466] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
467] 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)
468] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
469] 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
470] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
471] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
472] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
473] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
474] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
475] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
476] 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.
477] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
478] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
479] 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
480] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
481] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
482] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
483] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
484] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
485] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
486] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
487] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
488] 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)
489] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
490] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
491] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
492] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
493] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
494] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
495] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
496] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
497] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
498] 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.
499] 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)
500] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
501] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
502] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
503] 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
504] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
505] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
506] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
507] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
508] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
509] 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
510] 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).
511] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
512] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
513] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
514] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
515] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
516] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
517] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
518] 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
519] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
520] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
521] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
522] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
523] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
524] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
525] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
526] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
527] 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.
528] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
529] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
530] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
531] 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.
532] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
533] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
534] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
535] 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
536] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
537] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
538] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
539] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
540] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
541] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
542] 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
543] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
544] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
545] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
546] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
547] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
548] 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
549] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
550] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
551] 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
552] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
553] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
554] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
555] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
556] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
557] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
558] 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.
559] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
560] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
561] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
562] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
563] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
564] 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.
565] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
566] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
567] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
568] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
569] 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
570] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
571] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
572] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
573] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
574] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
575] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
576] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
577] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
578] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
579] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
580] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
581] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
582] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
583] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
584] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
585] 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)
586] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
587] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
588] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
589] 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.
590] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
591] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
592] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
593] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
594] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
595] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
596] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
597] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
598] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
599] 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.
600] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson