Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.
2] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
3] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
4] 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.
5] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
6] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
7] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
8] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
9] 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
10] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
11] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
12] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
13] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
14] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
15] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
16] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
17] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
18] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
19] 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
20] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
21] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
22] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
23] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
24] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
25] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
26] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
27] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
28] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
29] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
30] 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
31] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
32] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
33] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
34] 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.
35] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
36] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
37] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
38] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
39] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
40] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
41] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
42] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
43] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
44] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
45] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
46] 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.
47] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
48] 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
49] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
50] 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.
51] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
52] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
53] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
54] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
55] 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.
56] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
57] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
58] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
59] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
60] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
61] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
62] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
63] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
64] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
65] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
66] 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)
67] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
68] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
69] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
70] 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
71] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
72] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
73] 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
74] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
75] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
76] 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.
77] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
78] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
79] 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)
80] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
81] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
82] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
83] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
84] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
85] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
86] 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
87] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
88] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
89] 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
90] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
91] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
92] 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)
93] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
94] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
95] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
96] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
97] 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)
98] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
99] 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)
100] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
101] 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.
102] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
103] 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
104] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
105] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
106] 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.
107] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
108] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
109] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
110] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
111] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
112] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
113] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
114] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
115] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
116] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
117] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
118] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
119] 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.
120] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
121] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
122] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
123] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
124] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
125] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
126] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
127] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
128] 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.
129] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
130] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
131] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
132] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
133] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
134] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
135] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
136] 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
137] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
138] 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.
139] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
140] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
141] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
142] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
143] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
144] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
145] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
146] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
147] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
148] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
149] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
150] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
151] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
152] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
153] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
154] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
155] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
156] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
157] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
158] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
159] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
160] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
161] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
162] 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.
163] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
164] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
165] 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)
166] 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.
167] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
168] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
169] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
170] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
171] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
172] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
173] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
174] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
175] 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)
176] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
177] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
178] 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)
179] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
180] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
181] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
182] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
183] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
184] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
185] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
186] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
187] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
188] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
189] 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.
190] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
191] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
192] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
193] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
194] 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.
195] 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
196] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
197] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
198] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
199] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
200] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
201] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
202] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
203] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
204] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
205] 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.
206] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
207] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
208] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
209] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
210] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
211] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
212] 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.
213] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
214] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
215] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
216] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
217] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
218] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
219] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
220] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
221] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
222] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
223] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
224] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
225] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
226] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
227] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
228] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
229] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
230] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
231] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
232] 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.
233] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
234] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
235] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
236] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
237] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
238] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
239] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
240] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
241] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
242] 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.
243] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
244] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
245] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
246] 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
247] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
248] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
249] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
250] 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.
251] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
252] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
253] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
254] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
255] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
256] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
257] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
258] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
259] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
260] 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
261] 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.
262] 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
263] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
264] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
265] 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.
266] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
267] 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.
268] 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
269] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
270] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
271] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
272] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
273] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
274] 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.
275] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
276] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
277] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
278] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
279] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
280] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
281] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
282] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
283] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
284] 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.
285] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
286] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
287] 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.
288] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
289] 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)
290] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
291] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
292] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
293] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
294] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
295] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
296] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
297] 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
298] Commonsense is not so common.
299] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
300] 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.
301] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
302] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
303] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
304] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
305] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
306] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
307] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
308] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
309] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
310] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
311] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
312] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
313] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
314] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
315] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
316] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
317] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
318] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
319] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
320] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
321] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
322] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
323] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
324] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
325] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
326] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
327] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
328] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
329] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
330] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
331] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
332] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
333] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
334] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
335] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
336] 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
337] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
338] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
339] 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)
340] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
341] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
342] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
343] 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.
344] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
345] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
346] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
347] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
348] 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.
349] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
350] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
351] 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.
352] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
353] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
354] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
355] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
356] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
357] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
358] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
359] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
360] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
361] 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.
362] 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)
363] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
364] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
365] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
366] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
367] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
368] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
369] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
370] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
371] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
372] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
373] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
374] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
375] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
376] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
377] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
378] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
379] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
380] 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)
381] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
382] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
383] 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
384] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
385] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
386] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
387] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
388] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
389] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
390] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
391] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
392] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
393] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
394] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
395] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
396] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
397] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
398] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
399] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
400] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
401] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
402] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
403] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
404] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
405] 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
406] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
407] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
408] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
409] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
410] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
411] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
412] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
413] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
414] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
415] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
416] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
417] 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
418] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
419] 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.”
420] 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.
421] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
422] 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
423] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
424] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
425] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
426] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
427] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
428] 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.
429] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
430] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
431] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
432] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
433] 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
434] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
435] 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
436] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
437] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
438] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
439] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
440] 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.
441] 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.
442] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
443] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
444] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
445] 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)
446] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
447] 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
448] 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.
449] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
450] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
451] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
452] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
453] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
454] 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
455] 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.
456] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
457] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
458] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
459] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
460] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
461] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
462] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
463] 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
464] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
465] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
466] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
467] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
468] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
469] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
470] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
471] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
472] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
473] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
474] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
475] 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
476] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
477] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
478] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
479] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
480] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
481] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
482] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
483] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
484] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
485] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
486] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
487] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
488] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
489] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
490] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
491] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
492] 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
493] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
494] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
495] 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
496] 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.
497] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
498] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
499] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
500] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
501] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
502] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
503] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
504] 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
505] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
506] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
507] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
508] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
509] 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]
510] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
511] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
512] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
513] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
514] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
515] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
516] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
517] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
518] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
519] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
520] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
521] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
522] 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
523] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
524] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
525] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
526] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
527] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
528] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
529] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
530] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
531] 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.
532] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
533] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
534] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
535] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
536] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
537] 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.
538] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
539] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
540] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
541] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
542] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
543] 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).
544] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
545] 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.
546] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
547] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
548] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
549] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
550] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
551] 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.
552] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
553] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
554] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
555] 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)
556] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
557] 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.
558] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
559] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
560] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
561] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
562] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
563] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
564] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
565] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
566] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
567] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
568] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
569] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
570] 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
571] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
572] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
573] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
574] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
575] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
576] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
577] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
578] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
579] 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.
580] 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.
581] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
582] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
583] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
584] 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.
585] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
586] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
587] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
588] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
589] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
590] 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
591] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
592] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
593] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
594] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
595] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
596] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
597] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
598] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
599] 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)
600] 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