Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
2] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
3] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
4] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
5] 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
6] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
7] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
8] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
9] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
10] 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.
11] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
12] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
13] 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.
14] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
15] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
16] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
17] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
18] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
19] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
20] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
21] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
22] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
23] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
24] 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
25] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
26] 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
27] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
28] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
29] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
30] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
31] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
32] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
33] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
34] 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.
35] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
36] 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
37] 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
38] 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.
39] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
40] 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.
41] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
42] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
43] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
44] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
45] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
46] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
47] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
48] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
49] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
50] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
51] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
52] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
53] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
54] 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
55] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
56] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
57] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
58] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
59] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
60] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
61] 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).
62] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
63] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
64] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
65] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
66] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
67] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
68] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
69] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
70] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
71] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
72] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
73] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
74] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
75] 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.
76] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
77] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
78] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
79] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
80] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
81] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
82] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
83] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
84] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
85] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
86] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
87] 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.
88] 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.
89] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
90] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
91] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
92] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
93] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
94] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
95] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
96] 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
97] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
98] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
99] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
100] 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)
101] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
102] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
103] 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.
104] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
105] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
106] 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
107] 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.
108] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
109] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
110] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
111] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
112] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
113] 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
114] 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
115] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
116] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
117] 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.
118] 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.
119] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
120] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
121] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
122] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
123] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
124] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
125] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
126] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
127] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
128] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
129] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
130] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
131] 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)
132] 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.
133] 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.
134] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
135] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
136] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
137] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
138] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
139] 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.
140] 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
141] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
142] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
143] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
144] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
145] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
146] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
147] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
148] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
149] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
150] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
151] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
152] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
153] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
154] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
155] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
156] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
157] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
158] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
159] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
160] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
161] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
162] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
163] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
164] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
165] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
166] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
167] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
168] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
169] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
170] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
171] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
172] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
173] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
174] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
175] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
176] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
177] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
178] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
179] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
180] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
181] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
182] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
183] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
184] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
185] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
186] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
187] 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)
188] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
189] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
190] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
191] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
192] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
193] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
194] 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.
195] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
196] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
197] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
198] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
199] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
200] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
201] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
202] 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
203] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
204] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
205] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
206] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
207] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
208] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
209] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
210] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
211] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
212] 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)
213] 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)
214] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
215] 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.
216] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
217] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
218] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
219] 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
220] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
221] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
222] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
223] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
224] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
225] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
226] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
227] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
228] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
229] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
230] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
231] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
232] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
233] 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)
234] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
235] 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.
236] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
237] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
238] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
239] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
240] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
241] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
242] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
243] 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.
244] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
245] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
246] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
247] 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
248] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
249] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
250] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
251] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
252] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
253] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
254] 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)
255] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
256] 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
257] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
258] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
259] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
260] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
261] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
262] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
263] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
264] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
265] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
266] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
267] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
268] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
269] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
270] 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.
271] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
272] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
273] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
274] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
275] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
276] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
277] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
278] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
279] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
280] 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)
281] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
282] 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.
283] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
284] 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.
285] 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
286] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
287] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
288] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
289] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
290] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
291] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
292] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
293] 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.
294] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
295] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
296] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
297] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
298] 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.
299] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
300] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
301] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
302] 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.
303] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
304] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
305] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
306] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
307] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
308] 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
309] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
310] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
311] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
312] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
313] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
314] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
315] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
316] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
317] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
318] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
319] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
320] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
321] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
322] 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.
323] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
324] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
325] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
326] 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
327] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
328] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
329] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
330] 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.
331] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
332] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
333] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
334] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
335] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
336] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
337] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
338] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
339] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
340] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
341] 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.
342] 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
343] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
344] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
345] 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)
346] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
347] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
348] 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
349] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
350] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
351] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
352] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
353] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
354] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
355] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
356] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
357] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
358] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
359] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
360] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
361] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
362] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
363] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
364] 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
365] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
366] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
367] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
368] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
369] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
370] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
371] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
372] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
373] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
374] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
375] 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
376] 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)
377] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
378] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
379] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
380] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
381] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
382] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
383] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
384] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
385] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
386] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
387] 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]
388] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
389] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
390] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
391] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
392] 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)
393] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
394] 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
395] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
396] 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.
397] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
398] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
399] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
400] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
401] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
402] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
403] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
404] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
405] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
406] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
407] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
408] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
409] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
410] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
411] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
412] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
413] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
414] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
415] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
416] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
417] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
418] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
419] 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
420] 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
421] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
422] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
423] 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
424] 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.
425] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
426] 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.
427] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
428] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
429] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
430] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
431] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
432] 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.
433] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
434] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
435] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
436] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
437] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
438] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
439] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
440] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
441] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
442] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
443] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
444] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
445] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
446] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
447] 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
448] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
449] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
450] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
451] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
452] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
453] 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.
454] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
455] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
456] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
457] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
458] 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
459] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
460] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
461] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
462] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
463] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
464] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
465] 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
466] 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.
467] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
468] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
469] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
470] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
471] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
472] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
473] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
474] 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.
475] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
476] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
477] 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.
478] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
479] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
480] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
481] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
482] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
483] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
484] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
485] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
486] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
487] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
488] 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.
489] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
490] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
491] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
492] 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
493] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
494] 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).
495] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
496] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
497] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
498] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
499] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
500] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
501] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
502] 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.
503] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
504] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
505] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
506] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
507] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
508] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
509] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
510] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
511] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
512] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
513] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
514] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
515] 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.
516] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
517] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
518] 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.
519] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
520] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
521] 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.
522] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
523] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
524] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
525] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
526] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
527] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
528] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
529] 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.
530] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
531] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
532] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
533] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
534] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
535] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
536] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
537] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
538] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
539] 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.
540] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
541] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
542] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
543] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
544] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
545] 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.
546] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
547] 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.
548] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
549] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
550] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
551] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
552] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
553] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
554] 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.
555] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
556] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
557] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
558] 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.
559] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
560] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
561] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
562] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
563] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
564] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
565] 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
566] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
567] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
568] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
569] 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
570] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
571] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
572] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
573] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
574] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
575] 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.
576] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
577] 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
578] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
579] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
580] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
581] 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)
582] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
583] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
584] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
585] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
586] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
587] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
588] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
589] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
590] 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
591] 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.
592] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
593] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
594] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
595] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
596] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
597] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
598] 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
599] 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
600] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer