Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
2] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
3] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
4] 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.
5] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
6] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
7] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
8] 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
9] 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)
10] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
11] 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)
12] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
13] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
14] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
15] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
16] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
17] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
18] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
19] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
20] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
21] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
22] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
23] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
24] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
25] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
26] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
27] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
28] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
29] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
30] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
31] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
32] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
33] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
34] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
35] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
36] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
37] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
38] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
39] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
40] 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.
41] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
42] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
43] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
44] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
45] 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)
46] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
47] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
48] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
49] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
50] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
51] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
52] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
53] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
54] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
55] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
56] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
57] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
58] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
59] 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.
60] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
61] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
62] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
63] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
64] 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)
65] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
66] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
67] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
68] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
69] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
70] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
71] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
72] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
73] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
74] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
75] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
76] 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
77] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
78] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
79] 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.
80] 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)
81] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
82] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
83] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
84] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
85] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
86] 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
87] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
88] 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.
89] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
90] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
91] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
92] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
93] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
94] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
95] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
96] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
97] 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
98] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
99] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
100] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
101] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
102] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
103] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
104] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
105] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
106] 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.
107] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
108] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
109] 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.
110] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
111] 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
112] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
113] 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.
114] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
115] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
116] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
117] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
118] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
119] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
120] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
121] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
122] 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
123] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
124] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
125] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
126] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
127] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
128] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
129] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
130] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
131] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
132] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
133] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
134] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
135] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
136] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
137] 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
138] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
139] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
140] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
141] 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
142] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
143] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
144] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
145] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
146] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
147] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
148] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
149] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
150] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
151] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
152] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
153] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
154] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
155] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
156] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
157] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
158] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
159] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
160] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
161] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
162] 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.
163] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
164] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
165] 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]
166] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
167] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
168] 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.
169] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
170] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
171] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
172] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
173] 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.
174] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
175] 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)
176] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
177] 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
178] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
179] 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.
180] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
181] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
182] Commonsense is not so common.
183] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
184] 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.
185] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
186] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
187] 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.
188] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
189] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
190] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
191] 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.
192] 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.
193] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
194] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
195] 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
196] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
197] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
198] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
199] 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.
200] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
201] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
202] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
203] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
204] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
205] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
206] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
207] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
208] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
209] 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.
210] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
211] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
212] 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)
213] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
214] 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.
215] 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.
216] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
217] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
218] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
219] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
220] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
221] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
222] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
223] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
224] 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
225] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
226] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
227] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
228] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
229] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
230] 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
231] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
232] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
233] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
234] 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.
235] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
236] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
237] 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.
238] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
239] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
240] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
241] 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
242] 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)
243] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
244] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
245] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
246] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
247] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
248] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
249] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
250] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
251] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
252] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
253] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
254] 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.
255] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
256] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
257] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
258] 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]
259] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
260] 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)
261] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
262] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
263] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
264] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
265] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
266] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
267] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
268] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
269] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
270] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
271] 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.
272] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
273] 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
274] 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.
275] 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
276] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
277] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
278] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
279] 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
280] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
281] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
282] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
283] 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).
284] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
285] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
286] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
287] 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.
288] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
289] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
290] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
291] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
292] 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
293] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
294] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
295] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
296] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
297] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
298] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
299] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
300] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
301] 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.
302] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
303] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
304] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
305] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
306] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
307] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
308] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
309] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
310] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
311] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
312] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
313] 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.
314] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
315] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
316] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
317] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
318] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
319] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
320] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
321] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
322] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
323] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
324] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
325] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
326] 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
327] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
328] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
329] 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
330] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
331] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
332] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
333] 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
334] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
335] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
336] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
337] 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)
338] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
339] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
340] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
341] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
342] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
343] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
344] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
345] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
346] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
347] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
348] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
349] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
350] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
351] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
352] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
353] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
354] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
355] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
356] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
357] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
358] 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)
359] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
360] 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.
361] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
362] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
363] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
364] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
365] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
366] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
367] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
368] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
369] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
370] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
371] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
372] 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)
373] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
374] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
375] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
376] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
377] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
378] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
379] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
380] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
381] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
382] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
383] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
384] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
385] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
386] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
387] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
388] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
389] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
390] 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)
391] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
392] 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).
393] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
394] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
395] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
396] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
397] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
398] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
399] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
400] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
401] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
402] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
403] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
404] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
405] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
406] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
407] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
408] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
409] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
410] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
411] 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.
412] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
413] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
414] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
415] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
416] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
417] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
418] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
419] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
420] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
421] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
422] 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)
423] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
424] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
425] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
426] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
427] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
428] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
429] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
430] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
431] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
432] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
433] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
434] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
435] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
436] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
437] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
438] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
439] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
440] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
441] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
442] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
443] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
444] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
445] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
446] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
447] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
448] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
449] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
450] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
451] 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)
452] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
453] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
454] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
455] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
456] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
457] 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.
458] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
459] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
460] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
461] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
462] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
463] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
464] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
465] 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.
466] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
467] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
468] 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
469] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
470] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
471] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
472] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
473] 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.
474] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
475] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
476] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
477] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
478] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
479] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
480] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
481] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
482] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
483] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
484] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
485] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
486] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
487] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
488] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
489] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
490] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
491] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
492] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
493] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
494] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
495] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
496] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
497] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
498] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
499] 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
500] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
501] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
502] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
503] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
504] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
505] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
506] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
507] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
508] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
509] 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.
510] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
511] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
512] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
513] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
514] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
515] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
516] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
517] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
518] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
519] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
520] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
521] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
522] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
523] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
524] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
525] 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.
526] 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
527] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
528] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
529] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
530] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
531] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
532] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
533] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
534] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
535] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
536] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
537] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
538] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
539] 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
540] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
541] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
542] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
543] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
544] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
545] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
546] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
547] 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.
548] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
549] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
550] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
551] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
552] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
553] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
554] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
555] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
556] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
557] 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)
558] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
559] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
560] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
561] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
562] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
563] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
564] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
565] 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)
566] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
567] 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.
568] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
569] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
570] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
571] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
572] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
573] 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
574] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
575] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
576] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
577] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
578] 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
579] 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)
580] 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
581] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
582] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
583] 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.
584] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
585] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
586] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
587] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
588] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
589] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
590] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
591] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
592] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
593] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
594] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
595] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
596] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
597] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
598] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
599] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
600] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)