HOME
Full List
Insights
By Category
By People
Teachings of Jesus
Quotes
Quotations
Proverbs
Bible Quote Categories
Random Bible Quotes / Verses
100 Inspirational Bible Quotes
Inspirational & famous Quotations
1] 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.
2] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
3] 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.
4] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
5] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
6] 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.
7] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
8] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
9] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
10] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
11] 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
12] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
13] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
14] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
15] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
16] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
17] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
18] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
19] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
20] 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
21] 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)
22] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
23] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
24] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
25] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
26] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
27] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
28] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
29] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
30] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
31] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
32] 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
33] 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.
34] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
35] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
36] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
37] 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
38] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
39] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
40] 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)
41] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
42] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
43] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
44] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
45] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
46] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
47] 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)
48] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
49] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
50] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
51] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
52] 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.
53] 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]
54] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
55] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
56] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
57] 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.
58] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
59] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
60] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
61] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
62] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
63] 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.
64] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
65] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
66] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
67] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
68] 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.
69] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
70] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
71] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
72] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
73] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
74] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
75] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
76] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
77] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
78] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
79] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
80] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
81] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
82] 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.
83] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
84] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
85] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
86] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
87] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
88] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
89] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
90] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
91] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
92] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
93] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
94] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
95] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
96] 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.
97] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
98] 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)
99] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
100] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
101] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
102] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
103] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
104] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
105] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
106] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
107] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
108] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
109] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
110] 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)
111] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
112] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
113] 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.
114] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
115] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
116] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
117] 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.
118] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
119] 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)
120] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
121] 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.
122] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
123] 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
124] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
125] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
126] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
127] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
128] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
129] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
130] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
131] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
132] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
133] 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.
134] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
135] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
136] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
137] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
138] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
139] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
140] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
141] 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
142] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
143] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
144] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
145] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
146] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
147] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
148] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
149] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
150] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
151] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
152] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
153] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
154] 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)
155] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
156] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
157] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
158] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
159] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
160] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
161] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
162] 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)
163] 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
164] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
165] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
166] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
167] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
168] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
169] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
170] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
171] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
172] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
173] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
174] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
175] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
176] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
177] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
178] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
179] 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.
180] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
181] 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.
182] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
183] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
184] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
185] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
186] 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
187] 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
188] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
189] 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
190] 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
191] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
192] 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
193] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
194] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
195] 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.
196] 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.
197] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
198] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
199] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
200] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
201] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
202] 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
203] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
204] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
205] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
206] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
207] 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.
208] 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.
209] 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)
210] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
211] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
212] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
213] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
214] 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.
215] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
216] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
217] 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
218] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
219] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
220] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
221] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
222] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
223] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
224] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
225] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
226] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
227] 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
228] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
229] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
230] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
231] 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
232] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
233] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
234] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
235] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
236] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
237] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
238] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
239] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
240] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
241] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
242] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
243] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
244] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
245] 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.
246] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
247] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
248] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
249] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
250] 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)
251] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
252] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
253] 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
254] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
255] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
256] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
257] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
258] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
259] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
260] 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.
261] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
262] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
263] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
264] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
265] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
266] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
267] 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.
268] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
269] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
270] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
271] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
272] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
273] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
274] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
275] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
276] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
277] 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.
278] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
279] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
280] 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
281] 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.
282] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
283] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
284] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
285] 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.
286] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
287] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
288] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
289] 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).
290] 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.
291] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
292] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
293] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
294] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
295] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
296] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
297] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
298] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
299] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
300] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
301] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
302] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
303] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
304] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
305] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
306] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
307] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
308] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
309] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
310] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
311] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
312] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
313] 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)
314] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
315] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
316] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
317] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
318] 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
319] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
320] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
321] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
322] Commonsense is not so common.
323] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
324] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
325] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
326] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
327] 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)
328] 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
329] 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
330] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
331] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
332] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
333] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
334] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
335] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
336] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
337] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
338] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
339] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
340] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
341] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
342] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
343] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
344] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
345] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
346] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
347] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
348] 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
349] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
350] 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.
351] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
352] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
353] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
354] 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
355] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
356] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
357] 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)
358] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
359] 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)
360] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
361] 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.
362] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
363] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
364] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
365] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
366] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
367] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
368] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
369] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
370] 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
371] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
372] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
373] 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.
374] 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.
375] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
376] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
377] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
378] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
379] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
380] 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)
381] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
382] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
383] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
384] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
385] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
386] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
387] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
388] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
389] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
390] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
391] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
392] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
393] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
394] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
395] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
396] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
397] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
398] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
399] 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
400] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
401] 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)
402] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
403] 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.
404] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
405] 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
406] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
407] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
408] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
409] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
410] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
411] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
412] 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)
413] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
414] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
415] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
416] 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.
417] 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.
418] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
419] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
420] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
421] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
422] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
423] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
424] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
425] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
426] 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.
427] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
428] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
429] 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.
430] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
431] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
432] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
433] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
434] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
435] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
436] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
437] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
438] 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
439] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
440] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
441] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
442] 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.
443] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
444] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
445] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
446] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
447] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
448] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
449] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
450] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
451] 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).
452] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
453] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
454] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
455] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
456] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
457] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
458] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
459] 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.
460] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
461] 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
462] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
463] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
464] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
465] 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
466] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
467] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
468] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
469] 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.
470] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
471] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
472] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
473] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
474] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
475] 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.
476] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
477] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
478] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
479] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
480] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
481] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
482] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
483] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
484] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
485] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
486] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
487] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
488] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
489] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
490] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
491] 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.
492] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
493] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
494] 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.
495] 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.
496] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
497] Commonsense is not so common.
498] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
499] 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.
500] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
501] 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.
502] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
503] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
504] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
505] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
506] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
507] 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.
508] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
509] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
510] 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.
511] 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.
512] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
513] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
514] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
515] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
516] 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
517] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
518] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
519] 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.
520] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
521] 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
522] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
523] 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.
524] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
525] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
526] 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.
527] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
528] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
529] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
530] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
531] 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
532] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
533] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
534] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
535] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
536] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
537] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
538] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
539] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
540] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
541] 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
542] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
543] 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
544] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
545] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
546] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
547] 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.
548] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
549] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
550] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
551] 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
552] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
553] 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.
554] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
555] 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
556] 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)
557] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
558] 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
559] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
560] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
561] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
562] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
563] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
564] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
565] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
566] 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
567] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
568] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
569] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
570] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
571] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
572] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
573] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
574] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
575] 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.
576] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
577] 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]
578] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
579] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
580] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
581] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
582] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
583] 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
584] 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.
585] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
586] 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
587] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
588] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
589] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
590] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
591] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
592] 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
593] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
594] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
595] 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.
596] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
597] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
598] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
599] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
600] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec