Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
2] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
3] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
4] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
5] 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
6] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
7] 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
8] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
9] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
10] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
11] 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)
12] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
13] 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
14] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
15] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
16] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
17] 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
18] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
19] 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
20] 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 .
21] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
22] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
23] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
24] 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.
25] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
26] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
27] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
28] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
29] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
30] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
31] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
32] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
33] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
34] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
35] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
36] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
37] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
38] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
39] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
40] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
41] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
42] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
43] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
44] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
45] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
46] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
47] 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.
48] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
49] 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
50] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
51] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
52] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
53] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
54] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
55] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
56] 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
57] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
58] 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.
59] 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
60] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
61] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
62] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
63] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
64] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
65] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
66] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
67] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
68] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
69] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
70] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
71] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
72] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
73] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
74] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
75] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
76] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
77] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
78] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
79] 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
80] 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.
81] 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.
82] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
83] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
84] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
85] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
86] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
87] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
88] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
89] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
90] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
91] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
92] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
93] 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)
94] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
95] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
96] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
97] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
98] 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)
99] 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)
100] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
101] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
102] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
103] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
104] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
105] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
106] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
107] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
108] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
109] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
110] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
111] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
112] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
113] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
114] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
115] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
116] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
117] 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.
118] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
119] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
120] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
121] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
122] 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.
123] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
124] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
125] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
126] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
127] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
128] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
129] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
130] 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
131] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
132] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
133] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
134] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
135] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
136] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
137] 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.
138] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
139] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
140] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
141] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
142] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
143] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
144] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
145] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
146] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
147] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
148] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
149] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
150] 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.
151] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
152] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
153] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
154] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
155] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
156] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
157] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
158] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
159] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
160] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
161] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
162] 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.
163] 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.
164] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
165] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
166] 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
167] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
168] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
169] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
170] 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
171] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
172] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
173] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
174] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
175] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
176] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
177] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
178] Commonsense is not so common.
179] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
180] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
181] 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)
182] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
183] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
184] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
185] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
186] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
187] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
188] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
189] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
190] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
191] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
192] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
193] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
194] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
195] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
196] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
197] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
198] 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
199] 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
200] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
201] 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.
202] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
203] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
204] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
205] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
206] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
207] 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
208] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
209] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
210] 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.
211] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
212] 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.
213] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
214] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
215] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
216] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
217] 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)
218] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
219] 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
220] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
221] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
222] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
223] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
224] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
225] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
226] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
227] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
228] 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)
229] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
230] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
231] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
232] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
233] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
234] 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
235] 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)
236] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
237] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
238] 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)
239] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
240] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
241] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
242] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
243] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
244] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
245] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
246] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
247] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
248] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
249] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
250] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
251] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
252] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
253] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
254] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
255] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
256] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
257] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
258] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
259] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
260] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
261] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
262] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
263] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
264] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
265] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
266] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
267] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
268] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
269] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
270] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
271] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
272] 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.
273] 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.
274] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
275] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
276] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
277] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
278] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
279] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
280] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
281] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
282] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
283] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
284] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
285] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
286] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
287] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
288] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
289] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
290] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
291] 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
292] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
293] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
294] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
295] 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)
296] 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.
297] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
298] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
299] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
300] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
301] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
302] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
303] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
304] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
305] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
306] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
307] 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.
308] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
309] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
310] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
311] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
312] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
313] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
314] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
315] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
316] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
317] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
318] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
319] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
320] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
321] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
322] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
323] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
324] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
325] 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)
326] 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
327] 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
328] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
329] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
330] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
331] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
332] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
333] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
334] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
335] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
336] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
337] 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.
338] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
339] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
340] 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.
341] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
342] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
343] 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
344] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
345] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
346] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
347] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
348] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
349] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
350] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
351] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
352] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
353] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
354] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
355] 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.
356] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
357] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
358] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
359] 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.
360] 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.
361] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
362] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
363] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
364] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
365] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
366] 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.
367] 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)
368] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
369] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
370] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
371] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
372] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
373] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
374] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
375] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
376] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
377] 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
378] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
379] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
380] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
381] 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)
382] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
383] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
384] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
385] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
386] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
387] 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.
388] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
389] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
390] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
391] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
392] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
393] 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
394] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
395] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
396] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
397] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
398] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
399] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
400] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
401] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
402] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
403] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
404] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
405] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
406] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
407] 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.
408] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
409] 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.
410] 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.
411] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
412] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
413] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
414] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
415] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
416] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
417] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
418] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
419] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
420] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
421] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
422] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
423] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
424] 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.
425] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
426] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
427] 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.
428] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
429] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
430] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
431] 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
432] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
433] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
434] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
435] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
436] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
437] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
438] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
439] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
440] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
441] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
442] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
443] 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.
444] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
445] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
446] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
447] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
448] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
449] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
450] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
451] 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.
452] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
453] 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
454] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
455] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
456] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
457] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
458] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
459] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
460] 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
461] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
462] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
463] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
464] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
465] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
466] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
467] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
468] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
469] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
470] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
471] 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.
472] 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
473] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
474] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
475] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
476] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
477] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
478] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
479] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
480] 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.
481] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
482] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
483] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
484] 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.
485] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
486] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
487] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
488] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
489] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
490] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
491] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
492] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
493] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
494] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
495] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
496] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
497] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
498] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
499] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
500] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
501] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
502] 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)
503] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
504] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
505] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
506] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
507] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
508] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
509] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
510] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
511] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
512] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
513] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
514] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
515] 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
516] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
517] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
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] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
520] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
521] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
522] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
523] 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
524] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
525] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
526] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
527] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
528] 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)
529] 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)
530] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
531] 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.
532] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
533] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
534] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
535] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
536] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
537] 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.
538] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
539] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
540] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
541] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
542] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
543] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
544] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
545] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
546] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
547] 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
548] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
549] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
550] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
551] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
552] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
553] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
554] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
555] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
556] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
557] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
558] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
559] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
560] 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)
561] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
562] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
563] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
564] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
565] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
566] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
567] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
568] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
569] 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 .
570] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
571] 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
572] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
573] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
574] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
575] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
576] 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
577] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
578] 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
579] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
580] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
581] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
582] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
583] 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)
584] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
585] 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
586] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
587] 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
588] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
589] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
590] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
591] 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
592] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
593] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
594] 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
595] 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.
596] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
597] 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
598] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
599] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
600] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.