Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
2] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
3] 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.
4] 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.
5] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
6] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
7] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
8] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
9] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
10] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
11] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
12] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
13] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
14] 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
15] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
16] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
17] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
18] 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
19] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
20] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
21] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
22] 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
23] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
24] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
25] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
26] 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
27] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
28] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
29] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
30] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
31] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
32] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
33] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
34] 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
35] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
36] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
37] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
38] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
39] 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.
40] 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
41] 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]
42] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
43] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
44] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
45] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
46] 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.
47] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
48] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
49] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
50] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
51] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
52] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
53] 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
54] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
55] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
56] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
57] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
58] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
59] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
60] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
61] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
62] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
63] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
64] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
65] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
66] 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.
67] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
68] 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)
69] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
70] 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
71] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
72] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
73] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
74] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
75] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
76] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
77] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
78] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
79] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
80] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
81] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
82] 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.
83] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
84] 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.
85] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
86] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
87] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
88] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
89] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
90] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
91] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
92] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
93] 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.
94] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
95] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
96] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
97] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
98] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
99] 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.
100] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
101] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
102] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
103] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
104] 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.
105] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
106] 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)
107] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
108] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
109] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
110] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
111] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
112] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
113] 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.
114] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
115] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
116] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
117] 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.
118] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
119] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
120] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
121] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
122] 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 .
123] 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
124] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
125] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
126] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
127] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
128] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
129] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
130] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
131] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
132] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
133] 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
134] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
135] 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.
136] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
137] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
138] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
139] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
140] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
141] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
142] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
143] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
144] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
145] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
146] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
147] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
148] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
149] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
150] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
151] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
152] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
153] 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.
154] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
155] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
156] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
157] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
158] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
159] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
160] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
161] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
162] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
163] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
164] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
165] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
166] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
167] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
168] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
169] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
170] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
171] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
172] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
173] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
174] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
175] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
176] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
177] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
178] 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)
179] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
180] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
181] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
182] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
183] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
184] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
185] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
186] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
187] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
188] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
189] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
190] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
191] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
192] 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.
193] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
194] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
195] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
196] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
197] 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
198] 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.
199] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
200] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
201] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
202] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
203] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
204] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
205] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
206] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
207] 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.
208] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
209] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
210] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
211] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
212] 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)
213] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
214] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
215] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
216] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
217] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
218] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
219] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
220] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
221] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
222] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
223] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
224] 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.
225] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
226] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
227] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
228] 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)
229] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
230] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
231] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
232] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
233] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
234] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
235] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
236] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
237] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
238] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
239] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
240] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
241] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
242] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
243] 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.
244] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
245] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
246] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
247] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
248] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
249] 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
250] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
251] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
252] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
253] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
254] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
255] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
256] 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
257] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
258] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
259] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
260] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
261] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
262] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
263] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
264] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
265] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
266] 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
267] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
268] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
269] 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.
270] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
271] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
272] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
273] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
274] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
275] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
276] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
277] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
278] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
279] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
280] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
281] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
282] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
283] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
284] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
285] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
286] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
287] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
288] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
289] 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
290] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
291] 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.
292] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
293] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
294] 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.
295] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
296] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
297] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
298] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
299] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
300] 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.
301] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
302] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
303] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
304] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
305] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
306] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
307] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
308] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
309] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
310] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
311] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
312] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
313] 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
314] 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.
315] 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.
316] 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
317] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
318] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
319] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
320] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
321] 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
322] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
323] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
324] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
325] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
326] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
327] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
328] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
329] 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.
330] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
331] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
332] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
333] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
334] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
335] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
336] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
337] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
338] 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
339] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
340] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
341] 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
342] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
343] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
344] 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)
345] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
346] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
347] 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.
348] 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.
349] 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.
350] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
351] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
352] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
353] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
354] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
355] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
356] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
357] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
358] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
359] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
360] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
361] 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.
362] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
363] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
364] 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.
365] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
366] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
367] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
368] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
369] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
370] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
371] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
372] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
373] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
374] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
375] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
376] 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.
377] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
378] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
379] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
380] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
381] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
382] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
383] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
384] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
385] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
386] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
387] 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)
388] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
389] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
390] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
391] 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
392] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
393] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
394] 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.
395] 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 .
396] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
397] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
398] 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)
399] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
400] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
401] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
402] 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)
403] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
404] 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
405] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
406] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
407] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
408] 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.
409] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
410] 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
411] 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
412] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
413] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
414] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
415] 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.
416] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
417] 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.
418] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
419] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
420] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
421] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
422] 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)
423] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
424] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
425] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
426] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
427] 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
428] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
429] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
430] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
431] 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
432] 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
433] 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)
434] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
435] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
436] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
437] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
438] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
439] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
440] 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.”
441] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
442] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
443] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
444] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
445] 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.
446] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
447] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
448] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
449] 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.
450] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
451] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
452] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
453] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
454] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
455] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
456] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
457] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
458] 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.
459] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
460] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
461] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
462] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
463] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
464] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
465] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
466] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
467] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
468] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
469] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
470] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
471] 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
472] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
473] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
474] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
475] 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)
476] 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).
477] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
478] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
479] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
480] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
481] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
482] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
483] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
484] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
485] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
486] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
487] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
488] 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)
489] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
490] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
491] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
492] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
493] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
494] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
495] 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.
496] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
497] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
498] 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.
499] 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.
500] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
501] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
502] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
503] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
504] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
505] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
506] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
507] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
508] 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)
509] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
510] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
511] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
512] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
513] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
514] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
515] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
516] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
517] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
518] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
519] Commonsense is not so common.
520] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
521] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
522] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
523] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
524] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
525] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
526] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
527] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
528] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
529] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
530] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
531] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
532] 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)
533] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
534] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
535] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
536] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
537] 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
538] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
539] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
540] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
541] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
542] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
543] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
544] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
545] 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
546] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
547] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
548] 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.
549] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
550] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
551] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
552] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
553] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
554] 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
555] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
556] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
557] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
558] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
559] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
560] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
561] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
562] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
563] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
564] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
565] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
566] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
567] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
568] 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]
569] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
570] 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
571] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
572] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
573] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
574] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
575] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
576] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
577] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
578] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
579] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
580] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
581] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
582] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
583] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
584] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
585] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
586] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
587] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
588] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
589] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
590] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
591] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
592] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
593] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
594] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
595] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
596] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
597] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
598] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
599] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
600] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.