Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
2] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
3] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
4] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
5] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
6] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
7] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
8] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
9] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
10] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
11] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
12] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
13] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
14] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
15] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
16] 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)
17] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
18] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
19] 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)
20] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
21] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
22] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
23] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
24] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
25] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
26] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
27] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
28] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
29] 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)
30] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
31] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
32] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
33] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
34] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
35] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
36] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
37] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
38] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
39] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
40] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
41] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
42] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
43] 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.
44] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
45] 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.
46] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
47] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
48] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
49] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
50] 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.
51] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
52] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
53] 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.
54] 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.
55] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
56] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
57] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
58] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
59] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
60] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
61] 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
62] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
63] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
64] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
65] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
66] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
67] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
68] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
69] 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)
70] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
71] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
72] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
73] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
74] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
75] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
76] 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 .
77] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
78] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
79] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
80] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
81] 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).
82] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
83] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
84] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
85] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
86] 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
87] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
88] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
89] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
90] 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
91] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
92] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
93] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
94] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
95] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
96] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
97] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
98] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
99] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
100] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
101] 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.
102] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
103] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
104] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
105] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
106] 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)
107] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
108] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
109] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
110] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
111] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
112] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
113] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
114] 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)
115] 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.
116] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
117] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
118] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
119] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
120] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
121] 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)
122] 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.
123] 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.
124] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
125] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
126] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
127] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
128] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
129] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
130] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
131] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
132] 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
133] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
134] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
135] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
136] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
137] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
138] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
139] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
140] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
141] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
142] 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.
143] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
144] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
145] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
146] 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
147] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
148] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
149] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
150] 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)
151] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
152] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
153] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
154] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
155] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
156] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
157] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
158] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
159] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
160] 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
161] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
162] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
163] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
164] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
165] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
166] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
167] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
168] 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.
169] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
170] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
171] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
172] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
173] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
174] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
175] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
176] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
177] 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.
178] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
179] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
180] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
181] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
182] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
183] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
184] 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)
185] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
186] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
187] 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.
188] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
189] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
190] 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.
191] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
192] 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
193] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
194] 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)
195] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
196] 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.
197] 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
198] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
199] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
200] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
201] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
202] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
203] 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)
204] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
205] 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.
206] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
207] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
208] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
209] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
210] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
211] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
212] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
213] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
214] 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
215] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
216] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
217] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
218] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
219] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
220] 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
221] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
222] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
223] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
224] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
225] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
226] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
227] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
228] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
229] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
230] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
231] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
232] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
233] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
234] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
235] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
236] Commonsense is not so common.
237] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
238] 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
239] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
240] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
241] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
242] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
243] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
244] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
245] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
246] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
247] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
248] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
249] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
250] 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
251] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
252] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
253] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
254] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
255] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
256] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
257] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
258] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
259] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
260] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
261] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
262] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
263] 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
264] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
265] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
266] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
267] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
268] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
269] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
270] 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
271] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
272] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
273] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
274] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
275] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
276] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
277] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
278] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
279] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
280] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
281] 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
282] 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)
283] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
284] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
285] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
286] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
287] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
288] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
289] 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.
290] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
291] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
292] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
293] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
294] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
295] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
296] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
297] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
298] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
299] 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.
300] 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.
301] 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.
302] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
303] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
304] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
305] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
306] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
307] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
308] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
309] 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.
310] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
311] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
312] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
313] 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
314] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
315] 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)
316] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
317] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
318] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
319] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
320] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
321] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
322] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
323] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
324] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
325] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
326] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
327] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
328] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
329] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
330] 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
331] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
332] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
333] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
334] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
335] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
336] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
337] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
338] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
339] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
340] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
341] 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.
342] 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
343] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
344] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
345] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
346] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
347] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
348] Commonsense is not so common.
349] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
350] 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.
351] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
352] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
353] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
354] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
355] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
356] 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.
357] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
358] 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)
359] 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
360] 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.
361] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
362] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
363] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
364] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
365] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
366] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
367] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
368] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
369] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
370] 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.
371] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
372] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
373] 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)
374] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
375] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
376] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
377] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
378] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
379] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
380] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
381] 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)
382] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
383] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
384] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
385] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
386] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
387] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
388] 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.
389] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
390] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
391] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
392] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
393] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
394] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
395] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
396] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
397] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
398] 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
399] 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.
400] 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
401] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
402] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
403] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
404] 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.
405] 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.
406] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
407] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
408] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
409] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
410] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
411] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
412] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
413] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
414] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
415] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
416] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
417] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
418] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
419] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
420] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
421] 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
422] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
423] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
424] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
425] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
426] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
427] 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
428] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
429] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
430] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
431] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
432] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
433] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
434] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
435] 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.
436] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
437] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
438] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
439] 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.
440] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
441] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
442] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
443] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
444] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
445] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
446] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
447] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
448] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
449] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
450] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
451] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
452] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
453] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
454] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
455] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
456] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
457] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
458] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
459] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
460] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
461] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
462] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
463] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
464] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
465] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
466] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
467] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
468] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
469] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
470] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
471] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
472] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
473] 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)
474] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
475] 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.
476] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
477] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
478] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
479] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
480] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
481] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
482] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
483] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
484] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
485] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
486] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
487] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
488] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
489] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
490] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
491] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
492] 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.
493] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
494] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
495] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
496] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
497] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
498] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
499] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
500] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
501] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
502] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
503] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
504] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
505] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
506] 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
507] 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
508] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
509] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
510] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
511] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
512] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
513] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
514] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
515] 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.
516] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
517] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
518] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
519] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
520] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
521] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
522] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
523] 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.
524] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
525] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
526] 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.
527] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
528] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
529] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
530] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
531] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
532] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
533] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
534] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
535] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
536] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
537] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
538] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
539] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
540] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
541] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
542] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
543] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
544] 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.
545] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
546] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
547] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
548] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
549] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
550] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
551] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
552] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
553] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
554] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
555] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
556] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
557] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
558] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
559] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
560] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
561] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
562] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
563] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
564] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
565] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
566] 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
567] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
568] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
569] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
570] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
571] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
572] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
573] 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.
574] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
575] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
576] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
577] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
578] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
579] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
580] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
581] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
582] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
583] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
584] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
585] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
586] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
587] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
588] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
589] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
590] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
591] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
592] 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.
593] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
594] 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.
595] 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
596] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
597] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
598] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
599] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
600] 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