Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
2] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
3] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
4] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
5] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
6] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
7] 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.
8] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
9] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
10] 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.
11] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
12] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
13] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
14] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
15] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
16] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
17] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
18] 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.
19] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
20] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
21] 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.
22] 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
23] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
24] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
25] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
26] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
27] 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.
28] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
29] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
30] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
31] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
32] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
33] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
34] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
35] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
36] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
37] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
38] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
39] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
40] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
41] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
42] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
43] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
44] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
45] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
46] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
47] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
48] 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
49] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
50] 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.
51] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
52] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
53] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
54] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
55] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
56] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
57] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
58] 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)
59] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
60] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
61] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
62] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
63] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
64] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
65] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
66] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
67] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
68] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
69] 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
70] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
71] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
72] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
73] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
74] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
75] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
76] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
77] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
78] 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
79] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
80] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
81] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
82] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
83] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
84] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
85] 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.
86] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
87] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
88] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
89] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
90] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
91] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
92] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
93] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
94] 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
95] 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
96] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
97] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
98] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
99] 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
100] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
101] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
102] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
103] 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
104] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
105] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
106] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
107] 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
108] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
109] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
110] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
111] 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
112] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
113] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
114] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
115] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
116] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
117] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
118] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
119] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
120] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
121] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
122] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
123] 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
124] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
125] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
126] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
127] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
128] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
129] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
130] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
131] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
132] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
133] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
134] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
135] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
136] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
137] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
138] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
139] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
140] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
141] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
142] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
143] 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.
144] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
145] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
146] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
147] 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
148] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
149] 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
150] 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)
151] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
152] 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.
153] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
154] 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)
155] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
156] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
157] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
158] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
159] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
160] 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
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] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
163] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
164] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
165] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
166] 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)
167] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
168] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
169] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
170] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
171] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
172] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
173] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
174] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
175] 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)
176] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
177] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
178] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
179] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
180] 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.
181] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
182] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
183] 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
184] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
185] 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.
186] 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.
187] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
188] 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
189] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
190] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
191] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
192] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
193] 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.
194] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
195] 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
196] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
197] 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
198] 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.
199] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
200] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
201] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
202] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
203] 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
204] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
205] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
206] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
207] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
208] 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
209] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
210] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
211] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
212] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
213] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
214] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
215] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
216] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
217] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
218] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
219] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
220] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
221] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
222] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
223] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
224] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
225] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
226] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
227] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
228] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
229] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
230] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
231] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
232] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
233] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
234] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
235] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
236] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
237] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
238] 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.
239] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
240] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
241] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
242] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
243] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
244] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
245] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
246] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
247] 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.
248] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
249] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
250] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
251] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
252] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
253] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
254] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
255] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
256] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
257] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
258] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
259] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
260] 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
261] 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.
262] 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
263] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
264] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
265] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
266] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
267] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
268] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
269] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
270] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
271] 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.
272] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
273] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
274] 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
275] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
276] 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.
277] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
278] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
279] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
280] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
281] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
282] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
283] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
284] 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.
285] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
286] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
287] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
288] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
289] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
290] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
291] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
292] 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)
293] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
294] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
295] 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.
296] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
297] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
298] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
299] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
300] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
301] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
302] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
303] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
304] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
305] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
306] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
307] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
308] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
309] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
310] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
311] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
312] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
313] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
314] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
315] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
316] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
317] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
318] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
319] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
320] 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.
321] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
322] 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.
323] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
324] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
325] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
326] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
327] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
328] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
329] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
330] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
331] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
332] 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
333] 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).
334] 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
335] 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)
336] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
337] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
338] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
339] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
340] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
341] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
342] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
343] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
344] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
345] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
346] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
347] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
348] 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.
349] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
350] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
351] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
352] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
353] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
354] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
355] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
356] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
357] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
358] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
359] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
360] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
361] 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.
362] 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
363] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
364] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
365] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
366] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
367] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
368] 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.
369] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
370] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
371] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
372] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
373] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
374] 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
375] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
376] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
377] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
378] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
379] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
380] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
381] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
382] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
383] 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.
384] 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.
385] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
386] 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
387] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
388] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
389] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
390] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
391] 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)
392] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
393] 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.
394] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
395] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
396] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
397] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
398] 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
399] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
400] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
401] 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.
402] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
403] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
404] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
405] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
406] 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
407] 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
408] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
409] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
410] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
411] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
412] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
413] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
414] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
415] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
416] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
417] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
418] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
419] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
420] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
421] 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.
422] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
423] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
424] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
425] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
426] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
427] 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
428] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
429] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
430] 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.
431] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
432] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
433] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
434] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
435] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
436] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
437] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
438] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
439] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
440] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
441] 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)
442] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
443] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
444] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
445] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
446] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
447] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
448] 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.
449] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
450] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
451] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
452] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
453] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
454] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
455] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
456] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
457] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
458] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
459] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
460] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
461] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
462] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
463] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
464] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
465] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
466] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
467] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
468] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
469] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
470] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
471] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
472] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
473] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
474] 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)
475] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
476] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
477] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
478] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
479] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
480] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
481] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
482] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
483] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
484] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
485] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
486] 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)
487] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
488] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
489] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
490] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
491] 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.
492] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
493] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
494] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
495] Commonsense is not so common.
496] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
497] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
498] 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)
499] 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
500] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
501] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
502] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
503] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
504] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
505] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
506] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
507] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
508] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
509] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
510] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
511] 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
512] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
513] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
514] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
515] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
516] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
517] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
518] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
519] 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.
520] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
521] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
522] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
523] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
524] 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.
525] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
526] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
527] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
528] 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).
529] 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
530] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
531] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
532] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
533] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
534] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
535] 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
536] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
537] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
538] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
539] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
540] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
541] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
542] 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)
543] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
544] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
545] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
546] 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.
547] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
548] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
549] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
550] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
551] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
552] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
553] 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.
554] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
555] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
556] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
557] 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).
558] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
559] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
560] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
561] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
562] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
563] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
564] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
565] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
566] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
567] 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.
568] 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
569] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
570] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
571] 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.
572] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
573] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
574] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
575] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
576] 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.
577] 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)
578] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
579] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
580] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
581] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
582] 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)
583] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
584] 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.
585] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
586] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
587] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
588] 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)
589] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
590] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
591] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
592] 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)
593] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
594] 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.
595] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
596] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
597] 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
598] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
599] 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
600] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain