Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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
2] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
3] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
4] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
5] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
6] 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.
7] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
8] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
9] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
10] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
11] 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
12] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
13] 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.
14] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
15] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
16] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
17] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
18] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
19] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
20] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
21] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
22] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
23] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
24] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
25] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
26] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
27] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
28] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
29] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
30] 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
31] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
32] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
33] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
34] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
35] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
36] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
37] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
38] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
39] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
40] 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
41] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
42] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
43] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
44] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
45] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
46] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
47] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
48] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
49] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
50] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
51] 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.
52] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
53] 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.
54] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
55] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
56] 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
57] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
58] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
59] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
60] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
61] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
62] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
63] 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)
64] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
65] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
66] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
67] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
68] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
69] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
70] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
71] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
72] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
73] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
74] 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.
75] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
76] 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
77] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
78] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
79] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
80] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
81] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
82] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
83] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
84] 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.
85] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
86] 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
87] 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
88] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
89] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
90] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
91] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
92] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
93] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
94] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
95] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
96] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
97] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
98] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
99] 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)
100] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
101] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
102] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
103] 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.
104] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
105] 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.
106] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
107] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
108] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
109] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
110] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
111] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
112] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
113] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
114] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
115] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
116] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
117] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
118] 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.
119] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
120] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
121] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
122] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
123] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
124] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
125] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
126] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
127] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
128] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
129] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
130] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
131] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
132] 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.
133] 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
134] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
135] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
136] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
137] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
138] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
139] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
140] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
141] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
142] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
143] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
144] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
145] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
146] 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)
147] 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
148] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
149] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
150] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
151] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
152] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
153] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
154] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
155] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
156] 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
157] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
158] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
159] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
160] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
161] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
162] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
163] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
164] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
165] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
166] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
167] 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.
168] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
169] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
170] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
171] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
172] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
173] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
174] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
175] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
176] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
177] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
178] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
179] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
180] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
181] 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)
182] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
183] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
184] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
185] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
186] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
187] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
188] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
189] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
190] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
191] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
192] 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.
193] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
194] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
195] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
196] 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
197] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
198] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
199] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
200] 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
201] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
202] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
203] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
204] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
205] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
206] 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.
207] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
208] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
209] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
210] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
211] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
212] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
213] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
214] 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.
215] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
216] 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 .
217] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
218] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
219] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
220] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
221] 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]
222] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
223] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
224] 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
225] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
226] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
227] 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.
228] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
229] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
230] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
231] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
232] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
233] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
234] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
235] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
236] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
237] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
238] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
239] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
240] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
241] 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)
242] 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)
243] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
244] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
245] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
246] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
247] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
248] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
249] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
250] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
251] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
252] 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
253] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
254] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
255] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
256] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
257] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
258] 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
259] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
260] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
261] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
262] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
263] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
264] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
265] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
266] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
267] 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.
268] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
269] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
270] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
271] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
272] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
273] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
274] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
275] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
276] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
277] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
278] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
279] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
280] 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.
281] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
282] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
283] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
284] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
285] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
286] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
287] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
288] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
289] 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.
290] 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.
291] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
292] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
293] 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.
294] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
295] 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
296] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
297] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
298] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
299] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
300] 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.
301] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
302] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
303] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
304] 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
305] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
306] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
307] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
308] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
309] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
310] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
311] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
312] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
313] 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
314] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
315] 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
316] 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.
317] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
318] 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.
319] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
320] 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.
321] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
322] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
323] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
324] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
325] 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
326] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
327] 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.
328] 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).
329] 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.
330] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
331] 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.
332] 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
333] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
334] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
335] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
336] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
337] 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.
338] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
339] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
340] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
341] 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]
342] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
343] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
344] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
345] 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
346] 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
347] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
348] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
349] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
350] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
351] 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
352] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
353] 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
354] 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.
355] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
356] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
357] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
358] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
359] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
360] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
361] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
362] 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.
363] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
364] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
365] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
366] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
367] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
368] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
369] 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)
370] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
371] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
372] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
373] 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)
374] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
375] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
376] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
377] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
378] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
379] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
380] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
381] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
382] 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)
383] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
384] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
385] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
386] 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
387] 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)
388] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
389] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
390] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
391] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
392] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
393] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
394] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
395] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
396] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
397] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
398] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
399] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
400] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
401] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
402] 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.
403] 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.
404] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
405] 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).
406] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
407] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
408] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
409] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
410] 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.
411] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
412] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
413] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
414] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
415] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
416] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
417] 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)
418] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
419] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
420] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
421] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
422] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
423] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
424] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
425] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
426] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
427] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
428] 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.
429] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
430] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
431] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
432] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
433] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
434] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
435] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
436] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
437] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
438] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
439] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
440] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
441] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
442] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
443] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
444] 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
445] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
446] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
447] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
448] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
449] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
450] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
451] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
452] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
453] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
454] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
455] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
456] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
457] 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.
458] 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.
459] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
460] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
461] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
462] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
463] 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)
464] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
465] 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 .
466] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
467] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
468] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
469] 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
470] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
471] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
472] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
473] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
474] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
475] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
476] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
477] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
478] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
479] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
480] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
481] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
482] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
483] 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
484] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
485] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
486] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
487] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
488] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
489] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
490] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
491] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
492] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
493] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
494] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
495] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
496] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
497] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
498] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
499] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
500] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
501] 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)
502] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
503] 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.
504] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
505] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
506] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
507] 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)
508] 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
509] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
510] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
511] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
512] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
513] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
514] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
515] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
516] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
517] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
518] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
519] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
520] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
521] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
522] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
523] 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
524] 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
525] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
526] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
527] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
528] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
529] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
530] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
531] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
532] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
533] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
534] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
535] 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
536] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
537] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
538] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
539] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
540] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
541] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
542] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
543] 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.
544] 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.
545] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
546] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
547] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
548] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
549] 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
550] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
551] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
552] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
553] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
554] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
555] 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.
556] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
557] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
558] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
559] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
560] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
561] 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.
562] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
563] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
564] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
565] 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.
566] 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
567] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
568] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
569] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
570] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
571] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
572] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
573] 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)
574] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
575] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
576] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
577] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
578] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
579] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
580] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
581] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
582] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
583] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
584] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
585] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
586] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
587] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
588] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
589] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
590] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
591] 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.
592] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
593] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
594] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
595] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
596] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
597] 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.
598] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
599] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
600] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner