Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
2] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
3] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
4] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
5] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
6] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
7] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
8] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
9] 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
10] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
11] 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.
12] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
13] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
14] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
15] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
16] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
17] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
18] 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)
19] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
20] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
21] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
22] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
23] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
24] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
25] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
26] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
27] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
28] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
29] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
30] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
31] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
32] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
33] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
34] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
35] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
36] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
37] 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.
38] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
39] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
40] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
41] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
42] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
43] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
44] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
45] 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.
46] 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.
47] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
48] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
49] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
50] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
51] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
52] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
53] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
54] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
55] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
56] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
57] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
58] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
59] 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)
60] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
61] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
62] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
63] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
64] 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.
65] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
66] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
67] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
68] 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.
69] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
70] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
71] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
72] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
73] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
74] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
75] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
76] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
77] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
78] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
79] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
80] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
81] 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
82] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
83] 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
84] 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.
85] 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.
86] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
87] 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)
88] 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.
89] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
90] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
91] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
92] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
93] 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
94] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
95] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
96] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
97] 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.
98] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
99] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
100] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
101] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
102] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
103] 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
104] 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
105] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
106] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
107] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
108] 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.
109] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
110] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
111] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
112] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
113] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
114] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
115] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
116] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
117] 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
118] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
119] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
120] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
121] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
122] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
123] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
124] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
125] 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.
126] 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.
127] 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
128] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
129] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
130] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
131] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
132] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
133] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
134] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
135] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
136] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
137] 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
138] 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.
139] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
140] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
141] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
142] 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
143] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
144] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
145] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
146] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
147] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
148] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
149] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
150] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
151] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
152] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
153] 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)
154] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
155] 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
156] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
157] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
158] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
159] 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
160] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
161] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
162] 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
163] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
164] 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
165] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
166] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
167] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
168] 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)
169] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
170] 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.
171] 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
172] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
173] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
174] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
175] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
176] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
177] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
178] 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
179] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
180] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
181] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
182] 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.
183] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
184] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
185] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
186] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
187] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
188] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
189] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
190] 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.
191] 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.
192] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
193] 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.
194] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
195] 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.
196] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
197] 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
198] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
199] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
200] Commonsense is not so common.
201] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
202] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
203] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
204] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
205] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
206] 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
207] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
208] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
209] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
210] 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
211] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
212] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
213] 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
214] 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).
215] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
216] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
217] 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.
218] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
219] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
220] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
221] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
222] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
223] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
224] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
225] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
226] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
227] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
228] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
229] 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]
230] 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.
231] 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.
232] 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
233] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
234] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
235] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
236] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
237] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
238] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
239] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
240] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
241] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
242] 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
243] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
244] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
245] 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.
246] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
247] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
248] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
249] 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.
250] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
251] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
252] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
253] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
254] 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.
255] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
256] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
257] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
258] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
259] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
260] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
261] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
262] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
263] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
264] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
265] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
266] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
267] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
268] 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
269] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
270] 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.
271] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
272] 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.
273] 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.
274] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
275] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
276] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
277] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
278] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
279] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
280] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
281] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
282] 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
283] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
284] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
285] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
286] 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.
287] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
288] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
289] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
290] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
291] 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
292] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
293] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
294] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
295] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
296] 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.
297] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
298] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
299] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
300] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
301] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
302] 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.
303] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
304] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
305] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
306] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
307] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
308] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
309] 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
310] 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
311] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
312] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
313] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
314] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
315] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
316] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
317] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
318] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
319] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
320] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
321] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
322] 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
323] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
324] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
325] 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)
326] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
327] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
328] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
329] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
330] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
331] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
332] 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.
333] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
334] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
335] 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.
336] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
337] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
338] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
339] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
340] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
341] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
342] 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)
343] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
344] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
345] 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.
346] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
347] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
348] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
349] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
350] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
351] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
352] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
353] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
354] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
355] 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
356] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
357] 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
358] 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.
359] 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.”
360] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
361] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
362] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
363] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
364] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
365] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
366] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
367] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
368] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
369] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
370] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
371] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
372] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
373] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
374] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
375] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
376] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
377] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
378] 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
379] 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.
380] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
381] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
382] 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
383] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
384] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
385] 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
386] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
387] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
388] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
389] 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
390] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
391] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
392] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
393] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
394] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
395] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
396] 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
397] 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.
398] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
399] 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)
400] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
401] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
402] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
403] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
404] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
405] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
406] 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.
407] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
408] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
409] 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.
410] 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.
411] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
412] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
413] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
414] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
415] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
416] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
417] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
418] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
419] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
420] 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.
421] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
422] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
423] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
424] 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.
425] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
426] 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
427] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
428] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
429] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
430] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
431] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
432] 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
433] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
434] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
435] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
436] 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.
437] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
438] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
439] 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.
440] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
441] 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.
442] 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
443] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
444] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
445] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
446] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
447] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
448] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
449] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
450] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
451] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
452] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
453] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
454] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
455] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
456] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
457] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
458] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
459] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
460] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
461] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
462] Commonsense is not so common.
463] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
464] 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.
465] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
466] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
467] 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.
468] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
469] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
470] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
471] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
472] 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.
473] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
474] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
475] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
476] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
477] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
478] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
479] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
480] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
481] 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)
482] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
483] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
484] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
485] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
486] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
487] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
488] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
489] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
490] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
491] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
492] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
493] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
494] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
495] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
496] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
497] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
498] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
499] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
500] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
501] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
502] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
503] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
504] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
505] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
506] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
507] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
508] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
509] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
510] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
511] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
512] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
513] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
514] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
515] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
516] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
517] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
518] 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)
519] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
520] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
521] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
522] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
523] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
524] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
525] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
526] 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.
527] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
528] 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.
529] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
530] 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)
531] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
532] 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.
533] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
534] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
535] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
536] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
537] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
538] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
539] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
540] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
541] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
542] 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)
543] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
544] 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.
545] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
546] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
547] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
548] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
549] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
550] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
551] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
552] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
553] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
554] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
555] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
556] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
557] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
558] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
559] 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
560] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
561] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
562] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
563] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
564] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
565] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
566] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
567] 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.
568] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
569] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
570] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
571] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
572] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
573] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
574] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
575] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
576] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
577] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
578] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
579] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
580] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
581] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
582] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
583] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
584] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
585] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
586] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
587] 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
588] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
589] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
590] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
591] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
592] 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.
593] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
594] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
595] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
596] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
597] 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.
598] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
599] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
600] 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