Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
2] 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.
3] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
4] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
5] 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.
6] 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.
7] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
8] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
9] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
10] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
11] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
12] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
13] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
14] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
15] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
16] 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.
17] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
18] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
19] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
20] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
21] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
22] 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
23] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
24] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
25] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
26] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
27] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
28] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
29] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
30] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
31] 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
32] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
33] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
34] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
35] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
36] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
37] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
38] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
39] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
40] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
41] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
42] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
43] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
44] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
45] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
46] 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
47] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
48] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
49] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
50] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
51] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
52] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
53] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
54] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
55] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
56] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
57] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
58] 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)
59] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
60] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
61] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
62] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
63] 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)
64] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
65] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
66] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
67] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
68] 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
69] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
70] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
71] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
72] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
73] 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
74] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
75] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
76] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
77] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
78] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
79] 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
80] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
81] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
82] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
83] 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.
84] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
85] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
86] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
87] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
88] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
89] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
90] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
91] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
92] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
93] 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.
94] 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.
95] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
96] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
97] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
98] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
99] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
100] 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.
101] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
102] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
103] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
104] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
105] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
106] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
107] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
108] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
109] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
110] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
111] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
112] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
113] 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
114] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
115] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
116] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
117] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
118] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
119] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
120] 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
121] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
122] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
123] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
124] 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
125] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
126] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
127] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
128] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
129] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
130] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
131] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
132] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
133] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
134] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
135] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
136] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
137] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
138] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
139] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
140] 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.
141] 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
142] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
143] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
144] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
145] 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
146] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
147] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
148] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
149] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
150] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
151] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
152] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
153] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
154] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
155] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
156] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
157] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
158] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
159] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
160] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
161] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
162] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
163] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
164] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
165] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
166] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
167] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
168] 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)
169] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
170] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
171] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
172] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
173] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
174] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
175] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
176] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
177] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
178] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
179] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
180] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
181] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
182] 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
183] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
184] 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
185] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
186] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
187] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
188] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
189] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
190] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
191] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
192] 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.
193] 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.
194] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
195] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
196] 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
197] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
198] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
199] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
200] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
201] 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).
202] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
203] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
204] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
205] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
206] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
207] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
208] 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
209] 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.
210] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
211] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
212] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
213] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
214] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
215] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
216] 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.
217] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
218] 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]
219] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
220] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
221] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
222] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
223] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
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] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
226] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
227] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
228] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
229] 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.
230] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
231] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
232] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
233] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
234] 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.
235] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
236] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
237] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
238] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
239] 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)
240] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
241] 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
242] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
243] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
244] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
245] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
246] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
247] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
248] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
249] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
250] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
251] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
252] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
253] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
254] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
255] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
256] 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.
257] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
258] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
259] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
260] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
261] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
262] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
263] 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
264] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
265] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
266] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
267] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
268] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
269] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
270] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
271] 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.
272] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
273] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
274] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
275] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
276] 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.
277] 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)
278] 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
279] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
280] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
281] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
282] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
283] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
284] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
285] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
286] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
287] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
288] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
289] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
290] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
291] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
292] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
293] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
294] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
295] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
296] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
297] 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.
298] 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
299] 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)
300] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
301] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
302] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
303] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
304] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
305] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
306] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
307] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
308] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
309] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
310] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
311] 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
312] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
313] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
314] 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.
315] 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)
316] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
317] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
318] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
319] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
320] 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.
321] 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)
322] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
323] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
324] 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.
325] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
326] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
327] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
328] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
329] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
330] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
331] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
332] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
333] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
334] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
335] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
336] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
337] 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)
338] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
339] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
340] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
341] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
342] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
343] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
344] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
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] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
347] 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.
348] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
349] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
350] 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
351] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
352] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
353] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
354] 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)
355] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
356] 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.
357] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
358] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
359] 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
360] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
361] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
362] 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.
363] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
364] 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
365] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
366] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
367] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
368] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
369] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
370] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
371] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
372] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
373] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
374] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
375] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
376] 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.
377] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
378] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
379] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
380] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
381] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
382] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
383] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
384] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
385] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
386] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
387] 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
388] 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
389] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
390] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
391] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
392] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
393] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
394] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
395] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
396] 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
397] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
398] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
399] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
400] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
401] 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.
402] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
403] 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.
404] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
405] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
406] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
407] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
408] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
409] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
410] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
411] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
412] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
413] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
414] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
415] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
416] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
417] 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]
418] 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.
419] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
420] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
421] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
422] 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
423] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
424] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
425] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
426] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
427] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
428] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
429] 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.
430] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
431] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
432] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
433] 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.
434] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
435] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
436] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
437] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
438] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
439] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
440] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
441] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
442] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
443] 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.
444] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
445] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
446] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
447] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
448] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
449] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
450] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
451] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
452] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
453] 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)
454] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
455] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
456] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
457] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
458] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
459] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
460] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
461] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
462] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
463] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
464] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
465] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
466] 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
467] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
468] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
469] 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.
470] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
471] 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
472] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
473] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
474] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
475] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
476] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
477] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
478] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
479] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
480] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
481] 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).
482] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
483] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
484] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
485] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
486] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
487] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
488] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
489] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
490] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
491] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
492] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
493] 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
494] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
495] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
496] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
497] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
498] 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)
499] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
500] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
501] 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.
502] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
503] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
504] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
505] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
506] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
507] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
508] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
509] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
510] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
511] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
512] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
513] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
514] 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)
515] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
516] 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.
517] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
518] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
519] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
520] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
521] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
522] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
523] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
524] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
525] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
526] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
527] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
528] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
529] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
530] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
531] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
532] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
533] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
534] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
535] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
536] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
537] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
538] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
539] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
540] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
541] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
542] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
543] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
544] 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.
545] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
546] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
547] 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.
548] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
549] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
550] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
551] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
552] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
553] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
554] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
555] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
556] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
557] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
558] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
559] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
560] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
561] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
562] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
563] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
564] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
565] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
566] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
567] 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
568] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
569] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
570] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
571] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
572] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
573] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
574] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
575] 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)
576] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
577] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
578] 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).
579] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
580] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
581] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
582] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
583] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
584] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
585] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
586] 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)
587] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
588] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
589] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
590] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
591] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
592] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
593] 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.
594] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
595] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
596] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
597] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
598] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
599] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
600] 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