Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
2] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
3] 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.
4] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
5] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
6] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
7] 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
8] 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
9] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
10] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
11] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
12] 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
13] 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)
14] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
15] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
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] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
18] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
19] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
20] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
21] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
22] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
23] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
24] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
25] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
26] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
27] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
28] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
29] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
30] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
31] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
32] 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.
33] 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.
34] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
35] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
36] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
37] 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.
38] 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
39] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
40] 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
41] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
42] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
43] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
44] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
45] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
46] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
47] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
48] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
49] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
50] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
51] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
52] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
53] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
54] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
55] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
56] 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
57] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
58] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
59] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
60] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
61] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
62] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
63] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
64] 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)
65] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
66] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
67] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
68] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
69] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
70] 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.
71] 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.
72] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
73] 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).
74] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
75] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
76] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
77] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
78] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
79] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
80] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
81] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
82] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
83] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
84] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
85] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
86] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
87] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
88] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
89] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
90] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
91] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
92] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
93] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
94] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
95] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
96] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
97] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
98] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
99] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
100] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
101] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
102] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
103] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
104] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
105] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
106] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
107] 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)
108] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
109] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
110] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
111] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
112] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
113] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
114] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
115] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
116] 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
117] 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.
118] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
119] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
120] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
121] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
122] 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]
123] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
124] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
125] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
126] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
127] 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
128] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
129] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
130] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
131] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
132] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
133] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
134] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
135] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
136] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
137] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
138] 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
139] 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
140] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
141] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
142] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
143] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
144] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
145] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
146] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
147] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
148] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
149] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
150] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
151] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
152] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
153] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
154] 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.
155] 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)
156] 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
157] 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.
158] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
159] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
160] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
161] 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.
162] 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.
163] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
164] 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.”
165] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
166] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
167] 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)
168] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
169] 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.
170] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
171] 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.
172] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
173] 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.
174] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
175] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
176] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
177] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
178] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
179] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
180] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
181] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
182] 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.
183] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
184] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
185] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
186] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
187] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
188] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
189] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
190] 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
191] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
192] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
193] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
194] 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
195] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
196] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
197] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
198] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
199] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
200] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
201] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
202] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
203] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
204] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
205] 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.
206] 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.
207] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
208] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
209] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
210] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
211] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
212] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
213] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
214] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
215] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
216] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
217] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
218] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
219] 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
220] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
221] 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.
222] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
223] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
224] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
225] 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
226] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
227] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
228] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
229] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
230] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
231] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
232] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
233] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
234] 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.
235] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
236] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
237] 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
238] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
239] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
240] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
241] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
242] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
243] 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)
244] 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).
245] 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)
246] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
247] 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.
248] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
249] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
250] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
251] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
252] 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
253] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
254] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
255] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
256] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
257] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
258] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
259] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
260] 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
261] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
262] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
263] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
264] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
265] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
266] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
267] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
268] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
269] 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.
270] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
271] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
272] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
273] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
274] 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
275] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
276] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
277] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
278] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
279] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
280] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
281] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
282] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
283] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
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] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
286] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
287] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
288] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
289] 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)
290] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
291] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
292] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
293] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
294] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
295] 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.
296] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
297] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
298] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
299] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
300] 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.
301] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
302] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
303] 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)
304] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
305] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
306] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
307] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
308] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
309] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
310] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
311] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
312] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
313] 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
314] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
315] 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.
316] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
317] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
318] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
319] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
320] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
321] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
322] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
323] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
324] 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.
325] 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]
326] 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)
327] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
328] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
329] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
330] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
331] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
332] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
333] 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)
334] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
335] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
336] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
337] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
338] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
339] 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
340] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
341] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
342] 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.
343] 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).
344] 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.
345] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
346] 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.
347] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
348] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
349] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
350] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
351] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
352] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
353] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
354] 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
355] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
356] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
357] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
358] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
359] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
360] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
361] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
362] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
363] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
364] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
365] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
366] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
367] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
368] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
369] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
370] 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
371] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
372] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
373] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
374] 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
375] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
376] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
377] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
378] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
379] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
380] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
381] 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.
382] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
383] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
384] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
385] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
386] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
387] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
388] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
389] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
390] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
391] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
392] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
393] 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)
394] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
395] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
396] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
397] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
398] 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
399] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
400] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
401] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
402] 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.
403] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
404] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
405] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
406] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
407] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
408] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
409] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
410] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
411] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
412] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
413] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
414] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
415] 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.
416] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
417] 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
418] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
419] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
420] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
421] 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)
422] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
423] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
424] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
425] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
426] 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
427] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
428] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
429] 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
430] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
431] 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)
432] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
433] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
434] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
435] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
436] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
437] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
438] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
439] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
440] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
441] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
442] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
443] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
444] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
445] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
446] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
447] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
448] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
449] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
450] 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
451] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
452] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
453] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
454] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
455] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
456] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
457] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
458] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
459] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
460] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
461] 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
462] 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.
463] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
464] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
465] 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)
466] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
467] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
468] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
469] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
470] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
471] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
472] 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.
473] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
474] 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.
475] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
476] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
477] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
478] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
479] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
480] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
481] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
482] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
483] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
484] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
485] 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
486] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
487] 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.
488] 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)
489] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
490] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
491] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
492] 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
493] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
494] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
495] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
496] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
497] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
498] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
499] 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.
500] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
501] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
502] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
503] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
504] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
505] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
506] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
507] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
508] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
509] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
510] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
511] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
512] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
513] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
514] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
515] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
516] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
517] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
518] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
519] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
520] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
521] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
522] 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
523] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
524] 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.
525] 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)
526] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
527] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
528] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
529] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
530] 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
531] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
532] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
533] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
534] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
535] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
536] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
537] 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 .
538] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
539] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
540] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
541] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
542] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
543] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
544] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
545] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
546] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
547] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
548] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
549] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
550] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
551] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
552] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
553] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
554] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
555] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
556] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
557] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
558] 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.
559] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
560] 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)
561] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
562] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
563] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
564] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
565] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
566] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
567] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
568] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
569] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
570] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
571] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
572] 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
573] 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.
574] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
575] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
576] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
577] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
578] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
579] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
580] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
581] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
582] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
583] 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
584] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
585] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
586] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
587] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
588] 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
589] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
590] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
591] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
592] 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
593] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
594] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
595] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
596] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
597] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
598] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
599] 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)
600] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.