Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
2] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
3] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
4] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
5] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
6] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
7] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
8] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
9] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
10] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
11] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
12] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
13] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
14] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
15] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
16] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
17] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
18] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
19] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
20] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
21] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
22] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
23] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
24] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
25] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
26] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
27] 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
28] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
29] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
30] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
31] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
32] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
33] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
34] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
35] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
36] 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)
37] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
38] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
39] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
40] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
41] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
42] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
43] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
44] 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
45] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
46] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
47] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
48] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
49] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
50] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
51] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
52] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
53] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
54] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
55] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
56] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
57] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
58] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
59] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
60] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
61] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
62] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
63] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
64] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
65] 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.
66] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
67] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
68] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
69] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
70] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
71] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
72] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
73] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
74] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
75] 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.
76] 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.
77] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
78] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
79] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
80] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
81] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
82] 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
83] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
84] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
85] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
86] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
87] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
88] 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.
89] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
90] 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
91] 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)
92] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
93] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
94] 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
95] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
96] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
97] 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)
98] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
99] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
100] 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.
101] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
102] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
103] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
104] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
105] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
106] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
107] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
108] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
109] 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)
110] 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.
111] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
112] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
113] 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.
114] 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.
115] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
116] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
117] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
118] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
119] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
120] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
121] 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.
122] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
123] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
124] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
125] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
126] 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)
127] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
128] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
129] 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)
130] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
131] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
132] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
133] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
134] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
135] 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).
136] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
137] 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.
138] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
139] 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
140] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
141] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
142] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
143] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
144] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
145] 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.
146] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
147] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
148] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
149] 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
150] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
151] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
152] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
153] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
154] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
155] 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)
156] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
157] 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)
158] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
159] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
160] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
161] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
162] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
163] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
164] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
165] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
166] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
167] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
168] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
169] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
170] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
171] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
172] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
173] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
174] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
175] 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.
176] 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.
177] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
178] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
179] 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
180] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
181] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
182] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
183] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
184] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
185] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
186] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
187] 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.
188] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
189] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
190] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
191] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
192] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
193] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
194] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
195] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
196] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
197] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
198] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
199] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
200] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
201] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
202] 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
203] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
204] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
205] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
206] 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.
207] 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.
208] 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.
209] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
210] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
211] 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
212] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
213] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
214] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
215] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
216] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
217] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
218] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
219] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
220] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
221] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
222] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
223] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
224] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
225] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
226] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
227] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
228] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
229] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
230] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
231] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
232] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
233] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
234] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
235] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
236] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
237] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
238] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
239] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
240] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
241] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
242] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
243] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
244] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
245] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
246] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
247] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
248] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
249] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
250] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
251] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
252] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
253] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
254] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
255] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
256] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
257] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
258] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
259] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
260] 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
261] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
262] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
263] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
264] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
265] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
266] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
267] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
268] 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
269] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
270] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
271] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
272] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
273] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
274] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
275] 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.
276] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
277] 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)
278] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
279] 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
280] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
281] 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
282] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
283] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
284] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
285] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
286] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
287] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
288] 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.
289] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
290] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
291] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
292] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
293] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
294] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
295] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
296] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
297] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
298] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
299] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
300] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
301] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
302] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
303] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
304] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
305] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
306] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
307] 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.
308] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
309] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
310] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
311] 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)
312] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
313] 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
314] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
315] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
316] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
317] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
318] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
319] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
320] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
321] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
322] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
323] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
324] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
325] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
326] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
327] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
328] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
329] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
330] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
331] 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.
332] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
333] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
334] 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]
335] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
336] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
337] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
338] 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.
339] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
340] 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.
341] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
342] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
343] 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)
344] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
345] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
346] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
347] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
348] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
349] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
350] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
351] 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)
352] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
353] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
354] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
355] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
356] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
357] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
358] 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
359] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
360] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
361] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
362] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
363] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
364] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
365] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
366] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
367] 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
368] 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
369] 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
370] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
371] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
372] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
373] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
374] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
375] 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.
376] 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
377] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
378] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
379] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
380] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
381] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
382] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
383] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
384] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
385] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
386] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
387] Commonsense is not so common.
388] 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)
389] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
390] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
391] 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.
392] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
393] 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
394] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
395] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
396] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
397] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
398] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
399] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
400] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
401] 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
402] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
403] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
404] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
405] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
406] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
407] 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.
408] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
409] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
410] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
411] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
412] 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.
413] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
414] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
415] 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)
416] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
417] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
418] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
419] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
420] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
421] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
422] 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
423] 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.
424] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
425] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
426] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
427] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
428] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
429] 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
430] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
431] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
432] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
433] 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
434] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
435] 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.
436] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
437] 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)
438] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
439] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
440] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
441] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
442] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
443] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
444] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
445] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
446] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
447] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
448] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
449] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
450] 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.
451] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
452] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
453] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
454] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
455] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
456] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
457] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
458] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
459] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
460] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
461] 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
462] 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
463] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
464] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
465] 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
466] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
467] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
468] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
469] 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)
470] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
471] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
472] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
473] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
474] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
475] 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.
476] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
477] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
478] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
479] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
480] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
481] 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.
482] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
483] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
484] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
485] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
486] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
487] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
488] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
489] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
490] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
491] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
492] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
493] 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.
494] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
495] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
496] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
497] 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
498] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
499] 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
500] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
501] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
502] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
503] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
504] 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
505] 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.
506] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
507] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
508] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
509] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
510] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
511] 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.
512] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
513] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
514] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
515] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
516] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
517] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
518] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
519] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
520] 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)
521] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
522] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
523] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
524] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
525] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
526] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
527] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
528] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
529] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
530] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
531] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
532] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
533] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
534] 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
535] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
536] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
537] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
538] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
539] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
540] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
541] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
542] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
543] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
544] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
545] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
546] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
547] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
548] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
549] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
550] 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
551] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
552] 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.
553] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
554] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
555] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
556] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
557] 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
558] 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.
559] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
560] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
561] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
562] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
563] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
564] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
565] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
566] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
567] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
568] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
569] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
570] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
571] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
572] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
573] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
574] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
575] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
576] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
577] 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.
578] 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.
579] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
580] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
581] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
582] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
583] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
584] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
585] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
586] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
587] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
588] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
589] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
590] 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.
591] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
592] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
593] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
594] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
595] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
596] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
597] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
598] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
599] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
600] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson