Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
2] 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)
3] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
4] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
5] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
6] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
7] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
8] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
9] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
10] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
11] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
12] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
13] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
14] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
15] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
16] 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
17] 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.
18] 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
19] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
20] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
21] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
22] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
23] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
24] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
25] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
26] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
27] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
28] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
29] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
30] 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
31] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
32] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
33] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
34] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
35] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
36] 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.
37] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
38] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
39] 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.
40] 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.
41] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
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] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
44] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
45] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
46] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
47] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
48] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
49] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
50] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
51] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
52] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
53] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
54] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
55] 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
56] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
57] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
58] 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
59] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
60] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
61] 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.
62] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
63] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
64] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
65] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
66] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
67] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
68] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
69] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
70] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
71] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
72] 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
73] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
74] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
75] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
76] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
77] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
78] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
79] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
80] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
81] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
82] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
83] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
84] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
85] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
86] 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]
87] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
88] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
89] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
90] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
91] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
92] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
93] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
94] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
95] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
96] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
97] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
98] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
99] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
100] 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)
101] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
102] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
103] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
104] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
105] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
106] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
107] 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.
108] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
109] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
110] 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
111] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
112] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
113] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
114] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
115] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
116] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
117] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
118] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
119] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
120] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
121] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
122] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
123] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
124] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
125] 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
126] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
127] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
128] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
129] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
130] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
131] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
132] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
133] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
134] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
135] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
136] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
137] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
138] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
139] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
140] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
141] 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
142] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
143] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
144] 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.
145] 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
146] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
147] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
148] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
149] 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.
150] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
151] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
152] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
153] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
154] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
155] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
156] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
157] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
158] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
159] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
160] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
161] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
162] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
163] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
164] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
165] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
166] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
167] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
168] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
169] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
170] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
171] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
172] 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)
173] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
174] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
175] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
176] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
177] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
178] 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)
179] 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.
180] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
181] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
182] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
183] 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.
184] 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.
185] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
186] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
187] 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
188] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
189] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
190] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
191] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
192] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
193] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
194] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
195] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
196] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
197] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
198] 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.
199] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
200] 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)
201] 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
202] 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.
203] 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.
204] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
205] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
206] 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.
207] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
208] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
209] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
210] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
211] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
212] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
213] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
214] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
215] 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.
216] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
217] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
218] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
219] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
220] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
221] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
222] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
223] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
224] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
225] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
226] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
227] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
228] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
229] 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.
230] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
231] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
232] 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.
233] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
234] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
235] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
236] 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.
237] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
238] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
239] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
240] 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
241] 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)
242] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
243] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
244] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
245] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
246] 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.
247] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
248] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
249] 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)
250] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
251] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
252] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
253] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
254] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
255] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
256] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
257] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
258] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
259] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
260] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
261] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
262] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
263] 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.
264] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
265] 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)
266] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
267] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
268] 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.
269] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
270] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
271] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
272] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
273] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
274] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
275] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
276] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
277] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
278] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
279] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
280] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
281] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
282] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
283] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
284] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
285] 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.
286] 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
287] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
288] 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.
289] 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
290] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
291] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
292] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
293] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
294] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
295] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
296] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
297] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
298] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
299] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
300] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
301] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
302] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
303] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
304] 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
305] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
306] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
307] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
308] 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)
309] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
310] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
311] 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.
312] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
313] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
314] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
315] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
316] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
317] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
318] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
319] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
320] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
321] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
322] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
323] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
324] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
325] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
326] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
327] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
328] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
329] 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)
330] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
331] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
332] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
333] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
334] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
335] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
336] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
337] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
338] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
339] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
340] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
341] 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)
342] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
343] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
344] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
345] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
346] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
347] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
348] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
349] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
350] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
351] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
352] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
353] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
354] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
355] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
356] 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.
357] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
358] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
359] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
360] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
361] Commonsense is not so common.
362] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
363] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
364] 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.
365] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
366] 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
367] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
368] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
369] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
370] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
371] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
372] 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
373] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
374] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
375] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
376] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
377] 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
378] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
379] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
380] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
381] 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)
382] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
383] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
384] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
385] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
386] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
387] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
388] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
389] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
390] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
391] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
392] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
393] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
394] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
395] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
396] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
397] 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
398] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
399] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
400] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
401] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
402] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
403] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
404] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
405] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
406] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
407] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
408] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
409] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
410] 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
411] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
412] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
413] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
414] 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.
415] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
416] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
417] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
418] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
419] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
420] 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.
421] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
422] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
423] 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)
424] 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
425] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
426] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
427] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
428] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
429] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
430] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
431] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
432] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
433] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
434] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
435] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
436] 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.
437] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
438] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
439] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
440] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
441] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
442] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
443] 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.
444] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
445] 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)
446] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
447] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
448] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
449] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
450] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
451] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
452] 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.
453] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
454] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
455] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
456] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
457] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
458] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
459] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
460] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
461] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
462] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
463] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
464] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
465] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
466] 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.
467] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
468] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
469] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
470] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
471] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
472] 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).
473] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
474] 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.
475] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
476] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
477] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
478] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
479] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
480] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
481] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
482] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
483] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
484] 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.
485] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
486] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
487] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
488] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
489] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
490] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
491] 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
492] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
493] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
494] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
495] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
496] 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.
497] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
498] 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.
499] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
500] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
501] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
502] 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.
503] 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
504] 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.
505] 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.
506] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
507] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
508] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
509] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
510] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
511] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
512] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
513] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
514] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
515] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
516] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
517] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
518] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
519] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
520] 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.
521] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
522] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
523] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
524] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
525] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
526] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
527] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
528] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
529] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
530] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
531] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
532] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
533] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
534] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
535] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
536] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
537] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
538] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
539] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
540] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
541] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
542] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
543] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
544] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
545] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
546] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
547] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
548] 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
549] 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
550] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
551] 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.
552] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
553] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
554] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
555] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
556] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
557] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
558] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
559] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
560] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
561] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
562] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
563] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
564] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
565] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
566] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
567] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
568] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
569] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
570] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
571] 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)
572] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
573] 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)
574] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
575] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
576] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
577] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
578] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
579] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
580] 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)
581] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
582] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
583] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
584] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
585] 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.
586] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
587] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
588] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
589] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
590] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
591] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
592] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
593] 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.
594] 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
595] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
596] 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.
597] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
598] 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
599] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
600] 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.