Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
2] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
3] 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.
4] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
5] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
6] 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.
7] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
8] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
9] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
10] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
11] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
12] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
13] 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
14] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
15] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
16] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
17] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
18] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
19] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
20] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
21] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
22] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
23] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
24] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
25] 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)
26] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
27] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
28] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
29] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
30] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
31] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
32] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
33] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
34] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
35] 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
36] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
37] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
38] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
39] 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.
40] 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.
41] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
42] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
43] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
44] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
45] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
46] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
47] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
48] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
49] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
50] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
51] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
52] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
53] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
54] 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.
55] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
56] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
57] 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.
58] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
59] 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.
60] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
61] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
62] 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.
63] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
64] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
65] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
66] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
67] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
68] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
69] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
70] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
71] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
72] 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.
73] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
74] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
75] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
76] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
77] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
78] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
79] 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.
80] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
81] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
82] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
83] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
84] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
85] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
86] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
87] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
88] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
89] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
90] 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.
91] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
92] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
93] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
94] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
95] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
96] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
97] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
98] 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
99] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
100] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
101] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
102] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
103] 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.
104] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
105] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
106] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
107] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
108] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
109] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
110] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
111] 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
112] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
113] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
114] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
115] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
116] 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
117] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
118] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
119] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
120] 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.
121] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
122] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
123] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
124] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
125] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
126] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
127] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
128] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
129] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
130] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
131] 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.
132] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
133] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
134] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
135] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
136] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
137] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
138] 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)
139] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
140] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
141] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
142] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
143] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
144] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
145] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
146] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
147] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
148] 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
149] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
150] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
151] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
152] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
153] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
154] 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
155] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
156] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
157] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
158] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
159] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
160] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
161] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
162] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
163] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
164] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
165] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
166] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
167] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
168] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
169] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
170] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
171] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
172] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
173] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
174] 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.
175] 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
176] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
177] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
178] 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.
179] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
180] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
181] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
182] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
183] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
184] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
185] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
186] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
187] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
188] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
189] 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]
190] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
191] 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).
192] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
193] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
194] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
195] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
196] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
197] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
198] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
199] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
200] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
201] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
202] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
203] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
204] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
205] 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
206] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
207] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
208] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
209] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
210] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
211] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
212] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
213] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
214] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
215] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
216] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
217] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
218] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
219] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
220] 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.
221] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
222] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
223] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
224] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
225] 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
226] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
227] 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.
228] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
229] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
230] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
231] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
232] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
233] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
234] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
235] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
236] 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.
237] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
238] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
239] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
240] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
241] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
242] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
243] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
244] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
245] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
246] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
247] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
248] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
249] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
250] 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.
251] 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
252] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
253] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
254] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
255] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
256] 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.
257] 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.
258] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
259] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
260] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
261] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
262] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
263] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
264] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
265] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
266] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
267] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
268] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
269] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
270] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
271] 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.
272] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
273] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
274] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
275] 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.
276] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
277] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
278] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
279] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
280] 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
281] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
282] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
283] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
284] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
285] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
286] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
287] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
288] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
289] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
290] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
291] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
292] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
293] 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
294] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
295] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
296] 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.
297] 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.
298] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
299] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
300] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
301] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
302] 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
303] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
304] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
305] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
306] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
307] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
308] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
309] 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.
310] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
311] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
312] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
313] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
314] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
315] 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
316] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
317] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
318] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
319] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
320] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
321] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
322] 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
323] Commonsense is not so common.
324] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
325] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
326] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
327] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
328] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
329] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
330] 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.
331] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
332] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
333] 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.
334] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
335] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
336] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
337] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
338] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
339] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
340] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
341] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
342] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
343] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
344] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
345] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
346] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
347] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
348] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
349] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
350] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
351] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
352] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
353] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
354] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
355] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
356] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
357] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
358] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
359] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
360] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
361] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
362] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
363] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
364] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
365] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
366] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
367] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
368] 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
369] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
370] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
371] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
372] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
373] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
374] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
375] 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.
376] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
377] 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
378] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
379] 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)
380] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
381] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
382] 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
383] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
384] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
385] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
386] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
387] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
388] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
389] 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.
390] 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)
391] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
392] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
393] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
394] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
395] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
396] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
397] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
398] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
399] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
400] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
401] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
402] 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.
403] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
404] 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.
405] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
406] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
407] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
408] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
409] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
410] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
411] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
412] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
413] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
414] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
415] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
416] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
417] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
418] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
419] 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
420] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
421] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
422] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
423] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
424] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
425] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
426] 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.
427] 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
428] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
429] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
430] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
431] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
432] 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
433] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
434] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
435] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
436] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
437] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
438] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
439] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
440] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
441] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
442] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
443] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
444] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
445] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
446] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
447] 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)
448] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
449] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
450] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
451] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
452] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
453] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
454] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
455] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
456] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
457] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
458] 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.
459] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
460] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
461] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
462] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
463] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
464] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
465] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
466] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
467] 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
468] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
469] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
470] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
471] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
472] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
473] 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.
474] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
475] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
476] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
477] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
478] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
479] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
480] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
481] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
482] 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.
483] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
484] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
485] 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
486] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
487] 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)
488] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
489] 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).
490] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
491] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
492] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
493] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
494] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
495] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
496] 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.
497] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
498] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
499] 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.
500] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
501] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
502] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
503] 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.
504] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
505] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
506] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
507] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
508] 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.
509] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
510] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
511] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
512] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
513] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
514] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
515] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
516] 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.
517] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
518] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
519] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
520] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
521] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
522] 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.
523] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
524] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
525] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
526] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
527] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
528] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
529] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
530] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
531] 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
532] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
533] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
534] 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
535] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
536] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
537] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
538] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
539] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
540] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
541] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
542] 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
543] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
544] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
545] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
546] 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.
547] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
548] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
549] 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.
550] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
551] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
552] 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.
553] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
554] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
555] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
556] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
557] 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)
558] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
559] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
560] 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.
561] 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.
562] 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.
563] 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.
564] 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
565] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
566] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
567] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
568] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
569] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
570] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
571] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
572] 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
573] 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
574] 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.
575] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
576] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
577] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
578] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
579] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
580] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
581] 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.
582] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
583] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
584] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
585] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
586] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
587] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
588] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
589] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
590] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
591] 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
592] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
593] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
594] 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)
595] 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
596] 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.”
597] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
598] 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.
599] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
600] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.