Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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)
2] 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.
3] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
4] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
5] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
6] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
7] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
8] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
9] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
10] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
11] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
12] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
13] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
14] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
15] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
16] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
17] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
18] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
19] 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.
20] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
21] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
22] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
23] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
24] 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.
25] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
26] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
27] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
28] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
29] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
30] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
31] 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
32] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
33] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
34] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
35] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
36] 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.
37] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
38] 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
39] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
40] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
41] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
42] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
43] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
44] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
45] 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
46] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
47] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
48] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
49] 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
50] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
51] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
52] 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.
53] 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.
54] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
55] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
56] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
57] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
58] 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
59] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
60] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
61] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
62] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
63] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
64] 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.
65] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
66] 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
67] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
68] 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
69] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
70] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
71] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
72] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
73] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
74] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
75] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
76] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
77] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
78] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
79] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
80] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
81] 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)
82] 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.
83] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
84] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
85] 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.
86] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
87] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
88] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
89] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
90] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
91] 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]
92] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
93] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
94] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
95] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
96] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
97] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
98] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
99] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
100] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
101] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
102] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
103] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
104] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
105] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
106] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
107] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
108] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
109] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
110] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
111] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
112] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
113] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
114] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
115] 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.
116] 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)
117] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
118] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
119] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
120] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
121] 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.
122] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
123] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
124] 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 .
125] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
126] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
127] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
128] 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
129] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
130] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
131] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
132] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
133] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
134] 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).
135] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
136] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
137] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
138] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
139] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
140] 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)
141] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
142] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
143] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
144] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
145] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
146] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
147] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
148] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
149] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
150] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
151] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
152] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
153] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
154] 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
155] 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
156] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
157] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
158] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
159] 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
160] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
161] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
162] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
163] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
164] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
165] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
166] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
167] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
168] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
169] 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
170] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
171] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
172] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
173] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
174] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
175] 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
176] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
177] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
178] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
179] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
180] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
181] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
182] 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).
183] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
184] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
185] 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)
186] Commonsense is not so common.
187] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
188] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
189] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
190] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
191] 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.
192] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
193] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
194] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
195] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
196] 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.
197] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
198] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
199] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
200] 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
201] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
202] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
203] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
204] 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)
205] 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
206] 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.
207] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
208] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
209] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
210] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
211] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
212] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
213] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
214] 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.
215] 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.
216] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
217] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
218] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
219] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
220] 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
221] 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.
222] 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.
223] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
224] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
225] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
226] 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
227] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
228] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
229] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
230] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
231] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
232] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
233] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
234] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
235] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
236] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
237] 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.
238] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
239] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
240] 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.
241] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
242] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
243] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
244] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
245] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
246] 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.
247] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
248] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
249] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
250] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
251] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
252] 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.
253] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
254] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
255] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
256] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
257] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
258] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
259] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
260] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
261] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
262] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
263] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
264] 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.
265] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
266] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
267] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
268] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
269] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
270] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
271] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
272] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
273] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
274] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
275] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
276] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
277] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
278] 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
279] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
280] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
281] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
282] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
283] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
284] 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
285] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
286] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
287] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
288] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
289] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
290] 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.
291] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
292] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
293] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
294] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
295] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
296] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
297] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
298] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
299] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
300] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
301] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
302] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
303] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
304] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
305] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
306] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
307] 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.
308] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
309] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
310] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
311] 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
312] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
313] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
314] 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
315] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
316] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
317] 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).
318] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
319] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
320] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
321] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
322] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
323] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
324] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
325] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
326] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
327] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
328] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
329] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
330] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
331] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
332] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
333] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
334] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
335] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
336] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
337] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
338] 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
339] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
340] 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.
341] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
342] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
343] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
344] 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.
345] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
346] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
347] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
348] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
349] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
350] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
351] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
352] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
353] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
354] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
355] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
356] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
357] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
358] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
359] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
360] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
361] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
362] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
363] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
364] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
365] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
366] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
367] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
368] 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.
369] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
370] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
371] 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
372] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
373] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
374] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
375] 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
376] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
377] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
378] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
379] 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)
380] 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
381] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
382] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
383] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
384] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
385] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
386] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
387] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
388] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
389] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
390] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
391] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
392] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
393] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
394] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
395] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
396] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
397] 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
398] 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
399] 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.
400] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
401] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
402] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
403] 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
404] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
405] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
406] 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.
407] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
408] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
409] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
410] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
411] 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)
412] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
413] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
414] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
415] 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
416] 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.
417] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
418] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
419] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
420] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
421] 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
422] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
423] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
424] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
425] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
426] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
427] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
428] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
429] 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.
430] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
431] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
432] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
433] 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)
434] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
435] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
436] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
437] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
438] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
439] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
440] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
441] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
442] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
443] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
444] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
445] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
446] 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)
447] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
448] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
449] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
450] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
451] 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
452] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
453] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
454] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
455] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
456] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
457] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
458] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
459] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
460] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
461] 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.
462] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
463] 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.
464] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
465] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
466] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
467] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
468] 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)
469] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
470] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
471] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
472] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
473] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
474] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
475] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
476] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
477] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
478] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
479] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
480] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
481] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
482] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
483] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
484] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
485] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
486] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
487] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
488] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
489] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
490] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
491] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
492] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
493] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
494] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
495] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
496] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
497] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
498] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
499] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
500] 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
501] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
502] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
503] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
504] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
505] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
506] 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)
507] 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
508] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
509] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
510] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
511] 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
512] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
513] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
514] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
515] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
516] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
517] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
518] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
519] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
520] 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.
521] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
522] 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
523] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
524] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
525] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
526] 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
527] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
528] 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
529] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
530] 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
531] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
532] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
533] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
534] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
535] 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
536] 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
537] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
538] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
539] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
540] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
541] 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
542] 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.
543] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
544] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
545] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
546] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
547] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
548] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
549] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
550] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
551] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
552] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
553] 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
554] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
555] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
556] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
557] 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)
558] 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.
559] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
560] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
561] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
562] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
563] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
564] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
565] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
566] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
567] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
568] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
569] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
570] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
571] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
572] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
573] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
574] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
575] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
576] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
577] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
578] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
579] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
580] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
581] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
582] 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]
583] 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
584] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
585] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
586] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
587] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
588] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
589] 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.
590] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
591] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
592] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
593] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
594] 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.
595] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
596] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
597] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
598] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
599] 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)
600] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)