Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
2] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
3] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
4] 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.
5] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
6] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
7] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
8] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
9] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
10] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
11] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
12] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
13] 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.
14] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
15] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
16] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
17] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
18] 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
19] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
20] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
21] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
22] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
23] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
24] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
25] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
26] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
27] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
28] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
29] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
30] 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
31] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
32] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
33] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
34] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
35] 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)
36] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
37] 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
38] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
39] 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)
40] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
41] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
42] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
43] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
44] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
45] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
46] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
47] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
48] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
49] 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)
50] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
51] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
52] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
53] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
54] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
55] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
56] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
57] 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
58] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
59] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
60] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
61] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
62] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
63] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
64] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
65] 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.
66] 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
67] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
68] 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)
69] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
70] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
71] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
72] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
73] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
74] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
75] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
76] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
77] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
78] 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
79] 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.
80] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
81] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
82] 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.
83] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
84] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
85] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
86] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
87] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
88] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
89] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
90] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
91] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
92] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
93] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
94] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
95] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
96] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
97] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
98] 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
99] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
100] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
101] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
102] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
103] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
104] 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
105] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
106] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
107] 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
108] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
109] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
110] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
111] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
112] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
113] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
114] 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)
115] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
116] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
117] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
118] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
119] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
120] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
121] 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.
122] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
123] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
124] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
125] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
126] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
127] 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
128] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
129] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
130] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
131] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
132] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
133] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
134] 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.
135] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
136] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
137] 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
138] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
139] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
140] 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)
141] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
142] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
143] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
144] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
145] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
146] 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
147] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
148] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
149] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
150] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
151] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
152] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
153] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
154] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
155] 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.
156] 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
157] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
158] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
159] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
160] 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.
161] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
162] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
163] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
164] 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.
165] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
166] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
167] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
168] 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.
169] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
170] 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
171] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
172] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
173] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
174] 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).
175] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
176] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
177] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
178] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
179] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
180] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
181] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
182] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
183] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
184] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
185] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
186] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
187] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
188] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
189] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
190] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
191] 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.
192] 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.
193] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
194] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
195] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
196] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
197] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
198] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
199] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
200] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
201] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
202] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
203] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
204] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
205] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
206] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
207] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
208] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
209] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
210] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
211] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
212] 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.
213] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
214] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
215] 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.
216] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
217] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
218] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
219] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
220] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
221] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
222] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
223] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
224] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
225] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
226] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
227] 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.
228] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
229] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
230] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
231] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
232] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
233] 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
234] 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)
235] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
236] 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)
237] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
238] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
239] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
240] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
241] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
242] 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
243] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
244] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
245] 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.
246] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
247] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
248] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
249] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
250] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
251] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
252] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
253] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
254] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
255] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
256] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
257] 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.
258] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
259] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
260] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
261] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
262] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
263] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
264] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
265] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
266] 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)
267] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
268] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
269] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
270] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
271] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
272] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
273] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
274] 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
275] 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.
276] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
277] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
278] 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.
279] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
280] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
281] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
282] 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
283] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
284] 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)
285] 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
286] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
287] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
288] 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)
289] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
290] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
291] 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.
292] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
293] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
294] 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
295] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
296] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
297] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
298] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
299] 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.
300] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
301] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
302] 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
303] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
304] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
305] 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.
306] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
307] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
308] 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
309] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
310] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
311] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
312] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
313] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
314] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
315] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
316] 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.
317] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
318] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
319] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
320] 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
321] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
322] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
323] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
324] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
325] 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)
326] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
327] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
328] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
329] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
330] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
331] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
332] 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.
333] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
334] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
335] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
336] 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)
337] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
338] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
339] 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.
340] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
341] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
342] 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)
343] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
344] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
345] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
346] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
347] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
348] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
349] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
350] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
351] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
352] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
353] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
354] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
355] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
356] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
357] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
358] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
359] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
360] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
361] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
362] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
363] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
364] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
365] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
366] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
367] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
368] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
369] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
370] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
371] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
372] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
373] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
374] 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.
375] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
376] 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.
377] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
378] 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
379] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
380] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
381] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
382] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
383] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
384] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
385] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
386] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
387] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
388] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
389] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
390] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
391] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
392] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
393] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
394] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
395] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
396] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
397] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
398] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
399] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
400] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
401] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
402] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
403] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
404] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
405] 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.
406] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
407] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
408] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
409] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
410] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
411] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
412] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
413] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
414] 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.
415] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
416] 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
417] 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.
418] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
419] 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
420] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
421] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
422] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
423] 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.
424] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
425] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
426] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
427] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
428] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
429] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
430] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
431] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
432] 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
433] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
434] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
435] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
436] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
437] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
438] 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.
439] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
440] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
441] 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
442] 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.
443] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
444] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
445] 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
446] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
447] 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
448] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
449] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
450] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
451] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
452] 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
453] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
454] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
455] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
456] 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
457] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
458] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
459] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
460] 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.
461] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
462] 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
463] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
464] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
465] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
466] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
467] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
468] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
469] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
470] 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.
471] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
472] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
473] 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.
474] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
475] 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.
476] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
477] 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.
478] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
479] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
480] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
481] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
482] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
483] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
484] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
485] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
486] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
487] 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.
488] 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.
489] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
490] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
491] 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.
492] 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
493] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
494] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
495] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
496] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
497] 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
498] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
499] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
500] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
501] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
502] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
503] 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
504] 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
505] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
506] 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.
507] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
508] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
509] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
510] 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
511] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
512] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
513] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
514] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
515] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
516] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
517] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
518] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
519] 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.
520] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
521] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
522] 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.
523] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
524] 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.
525] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
526] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
527] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
528] 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
529] 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
530] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
531] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
532] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
533] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
534] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
535] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
536] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
537] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
538] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
539] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
540] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
541] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
542] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
543] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
544] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
545] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
546] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
547] 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
548] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
549] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
550] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
551] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
552] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
553] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
554] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
555] 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.
556] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
557] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
558] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
559] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
560] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
561] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
562] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
563] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
564] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
565] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
566] 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.
567] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
568] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
569] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
570] 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.
571] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
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] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
574] 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)
575] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
576] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
577] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
578] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
579] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
580] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
581] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
582] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
583] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
584] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
585] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
586] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
587] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
588] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
589] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
590] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
591] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
592] 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.
593] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
594] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
595] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
596] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
597] 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 .
598] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
599] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
600] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo