Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
2] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
3] 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
4] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
5] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
6] 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.
7] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
8] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
9] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
10] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
11] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
12] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
13] 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
14] 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.
15] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
16] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
17] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
18] 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
19] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
20] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
21] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
22] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
23] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
24] 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)
25] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
26] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
27] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
28] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
29] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
30] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
31] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
32] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
33] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
34] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
35] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
36] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
37] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
38] 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).
39] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
40] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
41] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
42] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
43] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
44] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
45] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
46] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
47] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
48] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
49] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
50] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
51] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
52] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
53] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
54] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
55] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
56] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
57] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
58] 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
59] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
60] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
61] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
62] 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.
63] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
64] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
65] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
66] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
67] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
68] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
69] 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.
70] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
71] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
72] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
73] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
74] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
75] 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.
76] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
77] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
78] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
79] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
80] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
81] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
82] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
83] 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.
84] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
85] 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
86] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
87] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
88] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
89] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
90] 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
91] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
92] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
93] 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.
94] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
95] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
96] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
97] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
98] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
99] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
100] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
101] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
102] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
103] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
104] 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
105] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
106] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
107] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
108] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
109] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
110] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
111] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
112] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
113] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
114] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
115] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
116] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
117] 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
118] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
119] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
120] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
121] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
122] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
123] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
124] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
125] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
126] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
127] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
128] 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
129] 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).
130] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
131] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
132] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
133] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
134] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
135] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
136] 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
137] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
138] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
139] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
140] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
141] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
142] 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.
143] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
144] 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.
145] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
146] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
147] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
148] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
149] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
150] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
151] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
152] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
153] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
154] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
155] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
156] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
157] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
158] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
159] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
160] 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.
161] 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.
162] 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.
163] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
164] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
165] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
166] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
167] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
168] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
169] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
170] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
171] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
172] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
173] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
174] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
175] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
176] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
177] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
178] 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)
179] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
180] 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)
181] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
182] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
183] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
184] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
185] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
186] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
187] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
188] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
189] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
190] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
191] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
192] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
193] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
194] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
195] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
196] 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
197] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
198] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
199] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
200] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
201] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
202] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
203] 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
204] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
205] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
206] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
207] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
208] 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
209] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
210] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
211] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
212] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
213] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
214] 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
215] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
216] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
217] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
218] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
219] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
220] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
221] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
222] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
223] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
224] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
225] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
226] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
227] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
228] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
229] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
230] 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.
231] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
232] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
233] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
234] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
235] 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.
236] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
237] 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
238] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
239] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
240] 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.
241] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
242] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
243] 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.
244] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
245] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
246] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
247] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
248] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
249] 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
250] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
251] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
252] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
253] 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
254] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
255] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
256] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
257] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
258] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
259] 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
260] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
261] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
262] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
263] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
264] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
265] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
266] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
267] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
268] 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.
269] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
270] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
271] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
272] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
273] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
274] 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.
275] 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).
276] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
277] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
278] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
279] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
280] 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)
281] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
282] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
283] 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
284] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
285] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
286] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
287] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
288] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
289] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
290] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
291] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
292] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
293] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
294] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
295] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
296] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
297] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
298] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
299] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
300] 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)
301] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
302] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
303] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
304] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
305] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
306] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
307] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
308] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
309] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
310] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
311] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
312] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
313] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
314] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
315] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
316] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
317] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
318] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
319] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
320] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
321] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
322] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
323] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
324] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
325] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
326] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
327] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
328] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
329] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
330] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
331] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
332] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
333] 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
334] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
335] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
336] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
337] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
338] 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.
339] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
340] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
341] 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
342] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
343] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
344] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
345] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
346] 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.”
347] 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
348] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
349] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
350] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
351] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
352] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
353] 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.
354] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
355] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
356] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
357] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
358] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
359] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
360] 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
361] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
362] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
363] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
364] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
365] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
366] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
367] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
368] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
369] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
370] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
371] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
372] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
373] 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.
374] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
375] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
376] 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.
377] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
378] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
379] 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
380] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
381] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
382] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
383] 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.
384] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
385] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
386] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
387] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
388] 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
389] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
390] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
391] 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.
392] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
393] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
394] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
395] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
396] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
397] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
398] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
399] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
400] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
401] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
402] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
403] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
404] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
405] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
406] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
407] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
408] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
409] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
410] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
411] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
412] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
413] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
414] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
415] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
416] 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.
417] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
418] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
419] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
420] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
421] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
422] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
423] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
424] 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.
425] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
426] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
427] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
428] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
429] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
430] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
431] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
432] 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.
433] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
434] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
435] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
436] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
437] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
438] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
439] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
440] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
441] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
442] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
443] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
444] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
445] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
446] 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.
447] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
448] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
449] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
450] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
451] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
452] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
453] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
454] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
455] 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
456] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
457] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
458] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
459] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
460] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
461] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
462] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
463] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
464] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
465] 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)
466] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
467] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
468] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
469] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
470] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
471] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
472] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
473] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
474] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
475] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
476] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
477] 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
478] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
479] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
480] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
481] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
482] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
483] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
484] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
485] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
486] 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.
487] 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
488] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
489] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
490] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
491] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
492] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
493] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
494] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
495] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
496] 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.
497] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
498] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
499] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
500] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
501] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
502] 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.
503] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
504] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
505] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
506] 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.
507] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
508] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
509] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
510] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
511] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
512] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
513] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
514] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
515] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
516] 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
517] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
518] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
519] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
520] 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)
521] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
522] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
523] 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
524] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
525] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
526] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
527] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
528] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
529] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
530] 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)
531] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
532] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
533] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
534] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
535] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
536] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
537] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
538] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
539] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
540] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
541] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
542] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
543] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
544] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
545] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
546] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
547] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
548] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
549] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
550] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
551] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
552] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
553] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
554] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
555] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
556] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
557] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
558] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
559] Commonsense is not so common.
560] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
561] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
562] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
563] 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)
564] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
565] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
566] 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.
567] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
568] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
569] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
570] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
571] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
572] 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.
573] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
574] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
575] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
576] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
577] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
578] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
579] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
580] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
581] 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.
582] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
583] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
584] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
585] 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.
586] 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
587] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
588] 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
589] 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.
590] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
591] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
592] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
593] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
594] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
595] 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.
596] 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.
597] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
598] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
599] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
600] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half