Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
2] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
3] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
4] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
5] 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
6] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
7] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
8] 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
9] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
10] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
11] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
12] 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
13] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
14] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
15] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
16] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
17] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
18] 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.
19] 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
20] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
21] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
22] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
23] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
24] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
25] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
26] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
27] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
28] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
29] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
30] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
31] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
32] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
33] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
34] 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.
35] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
36] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
37] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
38] 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.
39] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
40] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
41] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
42] 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
43] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
44] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
45] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
46] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
47] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
48] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
49] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
50] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
51] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
52] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
53] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
54] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
55] 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.
56] 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.
57] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
58] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
59] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
60] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
61] 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.
62] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
63] 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.
64] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
65] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
66] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
67] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
68] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
69] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
70] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
71] 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
72] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
73] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
74] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
75] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
76] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
77] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
78] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
79] 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
80] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
81] 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
82] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
83] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
84] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
85] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
86] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
87] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
88] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
89] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
90] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
91] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
92] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
93] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
94] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
95] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
96] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
97] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
98] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
99] 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
100] 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
101] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
102] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
103] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
104] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
105] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
106] 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.
107] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
108] 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.
109] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
110] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
111] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
112] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
113] 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)
114] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
115] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
116] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
117] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
118] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
119] 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.
120] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
121] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
122] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
123] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
124] 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)
125] 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
126] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
127] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
128] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
129] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
130] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
131] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
132] 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.
133] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
134] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
135] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
136] 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.
137] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
138] 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.
139] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
140] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
141] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
142] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
143] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
144] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
145] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
146] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
147] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
148] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
149] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
150] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
151] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
152] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
153] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
154] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
155] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
156] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
157] 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
158] 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
159] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
160] 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.
161] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
162] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
163] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
164] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
165] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
166] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
167] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
168] 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)
169] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
170] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
171] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
172] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
173] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
174] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
175] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
176] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
177] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
178] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
179] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
180] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
181] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
182] 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
183] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
184] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
185] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
186] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
187] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
188] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
189] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
190] 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.
191] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
192] 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.
193] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
194] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
195] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
196] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
197] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
198] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
199] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
200] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
201] 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.
202] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
203] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
204] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
205] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
206] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
207] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
208] 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.
209] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
210] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
211] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
212] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
213] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
214] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
215] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
216] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
217] 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.
218] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
219] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
220] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
221] 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.
222] 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
223] 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
224] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
225] 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
226] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
227] 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.
228] 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.
229] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
230] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
231] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
232] 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.
233] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
234] 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)
235] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
236] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
237] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
238] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
239] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
240] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
241] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
242] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
243] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
244] 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
245] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
246] 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
247] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
248] 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
249] 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.
250] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
251] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
252] 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.
253] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
254] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
255] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
256] Commonsense is not so common.
257] 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.
258] 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)
259] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
260] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
261] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
262] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
263] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
264] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
265] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
266] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
267] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
268] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
269] 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.
270] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
271] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
272] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
273] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
274] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
275] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
276] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
277] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
278] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
279] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
280] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
281] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
282] 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
283] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
284] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
285] 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.
286] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
287] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
288] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
289] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
290] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
291] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
292] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
293] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
294] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
295] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
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] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
298] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
299] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
300] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
301] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
302] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
303] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
304] 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)
305] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
306] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
307] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
308] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
309] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
310] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
311] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
312] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
313] 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.
314] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
315] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
316] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
317] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
318] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
319] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
320] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
321] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
322] 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)
323] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
324] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
325] 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
326] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
327] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
328] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
329] 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.
330] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
331] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
332] 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
333] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
334] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
335] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
336] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
337] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
338] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
339] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
340] 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.
341] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
342] 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.
343] 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)
344] 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
345] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
346] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
347] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
348] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
349] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
350] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
351] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
352] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
353] 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)
354] 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)
355] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
356] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
357] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
358] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
359] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
360] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
361] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
362] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
363] 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.
364] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
365] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
366] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
367] 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.
368] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
369] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
370] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
371] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
372] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
373] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
374] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
375] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
376] 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.
377] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
378] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
379] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
380] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
381] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
382] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
383] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
384] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
385] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
386] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
387] 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
388] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
389] 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
390] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
391] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
392] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
393] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
394] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
395] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
396] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
397] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
398] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
399] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
400] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
401] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
402] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
403] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
404] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
405] 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
406] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
407] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
408] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
409] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
410] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
411] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
412] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
413] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
414] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
415] 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
416] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
417] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
418] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
419] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
420] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
421] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
422] 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
423] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
424] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
425] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
426] 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.
427] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
428] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
429] 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).
430] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
431] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
432] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
433] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
434] 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
435] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
436] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
437] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
438] 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)
439] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
440] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
441] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
442] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
443] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
444] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
445] 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.
446] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
447] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
448] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
449] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
450] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
451] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
452] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
453] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
454] 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
455] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
456] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
457] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
458] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
459] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
460] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
461] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
462] 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.
463] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
464] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
465] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
466] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
467] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
468] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
469] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
470] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
471] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
472] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
473] 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.
474] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
475] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
476] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
477] 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
478] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
479] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
480] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
481] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
482] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
483] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
484] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
485] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
486] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
487] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
488] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
489] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
490] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
491] 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.
492] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
493] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
494] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
495] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
496] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
497] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
498] 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
499] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
500] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
501] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
502] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
503] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
504] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
505] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
506] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
507] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
508] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
509] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
510] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
511] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
512] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
513] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
514] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
515] 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.
516] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
517] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
518] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
519] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
520] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
521] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
522] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
523] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
524] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
525] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
526] 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.
527] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
528] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
529] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
530] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
531] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
532] 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.
533] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
534] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
535] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
536] 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
537] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
538] 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.
539] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
540] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
541] 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.
542] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
543] 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.
544] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
545] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
546] 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
547] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
548] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
549] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
550] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
551] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
552] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
553] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
554] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
555] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
556] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
557] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
558] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
559] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
560] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
561] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
562] 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
563] 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
564] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
565] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
566] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
567] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
568] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
569] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
570] 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
571] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
572] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
573] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
574] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
575] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
576] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
577] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
578] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
579] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
580] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
581] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
582] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
583] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
584] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
585] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
586] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
587] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
588] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
589] 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
590] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
591] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
592] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
593] 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)
594] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
595] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
596] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
597] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
598] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
599] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
600] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).