Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
2] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
3] 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.
4] 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
5] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
6] 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.
7] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
8] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
9] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
10] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
11] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
12] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
13] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
14] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
15] 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)
16] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
17] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
18] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
19] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
20] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
21] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
22] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
23] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
24] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
25] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
26] 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)
27] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
28] 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
29] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
30] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
31] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
32] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
33] 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
34] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
35] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
36] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
37] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
38] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
39] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
40] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
41] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
42] 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.
43] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
44] 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
45] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
46] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
47] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
48] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
49] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
50] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
51] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
52] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
53] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
54] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
55] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
56] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
57] 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
58] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
59] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
60] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
61] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
62] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
63] 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.
64] 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.
65] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
66] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
67] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
68] 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.
69] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
70] 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.
71] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
72] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
73] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
74] 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
75] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
76] 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.
77] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
78] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
79] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
80] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
81] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
82] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
83] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
84] 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.
85] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
86] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
87] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
88] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
89] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
90] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
91] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
92] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
93] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
94] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
95] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
96] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
97] 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.
98] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
99] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
100] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
101] 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)
102] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
103] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
104] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
105] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
106] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
107] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
108] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
109] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
110] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
111] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
112] 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)
113] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
114] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
115] 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.
116] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
117] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
118] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
119] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
120] 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 .
121] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
122] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
123] 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.
124] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
125] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
126] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
127] 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.
128] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
129] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
130] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
131] 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
132] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
133] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
134] 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
135] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
136] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
137] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
138] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
139] 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.
140] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
141] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
142] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
143] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
144] 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
145] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
146] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
147] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
148] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
149] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
150] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
151] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
152] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
153] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
154] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
155] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
156] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
157] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
158] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
159] 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
160] Commonsense is not so common.
161] 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)
162] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
163] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
164] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
165] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
166] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
167] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
168] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
169] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
170] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
171] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
172] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
173] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
174] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
175] 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)
176] 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.
177] 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
178] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
179] 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.
180] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
181] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
182] 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
183] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
184] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
185] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
186] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
187] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
188] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
189] 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
190] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
191] 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
192] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
193] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
194] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
195] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
196] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
197] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
198] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
199] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
200] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
201] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
202] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
203] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
204] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
205] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
206] 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
207] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
208] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
209] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
210] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
211] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
212] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
213] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
214] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
215] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
216] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
217] 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
218] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
219] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
220] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
221] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
222] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
223] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
224] 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.
225] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
226] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
227] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
228] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
229] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
230] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
231] 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.
232] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
233] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
234] 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
235] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
236] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
237] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
238] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
239] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
240] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
241] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
242] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
243] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
244] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
245] 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.
246] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
247] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
248] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
249] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
250] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
251] 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.
252] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
253] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
254] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
255] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
256] 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)
257] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
258] 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.
259] 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.
260] 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.
261] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
262] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
263] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
264] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
265] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
266] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
267] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
268] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
269] 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.
270] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
271] 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
272] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
273] 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
274] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
275] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
276] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
277] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
278] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
279] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
280] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
281] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
282] 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.
283] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
284] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
285] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
286] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
287] 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.
288] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
289] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
290] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
291] 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
292] 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)
293] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
294] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
295] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
296] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
297] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
298] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
299] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
300] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
301] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
302] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
303] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
304] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
305] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
306] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
307] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
308] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
309] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
310] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
311] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
312] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
313] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
314] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
315] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
316] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
317] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
318] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
319] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
320] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
321] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
322] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
323] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
324] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
325] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
326] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
327] 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).
328] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
329] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
330] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
331] 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.
332] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
333] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
334] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
335] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
336] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
337] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
338] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
339] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
340] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
341] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
342] 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
343] 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.
344] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
345] 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.
346] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
347] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
348] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
349] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
350] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
351] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
352] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
353] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
354] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
355] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
356] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
357] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
358] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
359] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
360] 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 .
361] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
362] 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)
363] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
364] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
365] 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.
366] 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
367] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
368] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
369] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
370] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
371] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
372] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
373] 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)
374] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
375] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
376] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
377] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
378] 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)
379] 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
380] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
381] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
382] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
383] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
384] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
385] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
386] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
387] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
388] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
389] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
390] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
391] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
392] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
393] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
394] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
395] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
396] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
397] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
398] 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
399] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
400] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
401] 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
402] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
403] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
404] 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
405] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
406] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
407] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
408] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
409] 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).
410] 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.
411] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
412] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
413] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
414] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
415] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
416] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
417] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
418] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
419] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
420] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
421] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
422] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
423] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
424] 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.
425] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
426] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
427] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
428] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
429] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
430] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
431] 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)
432] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
433] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
434] 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)
435] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
436] 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)
437] 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
438] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
439] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
440] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
441] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
442] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
443] 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.
444] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
445] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
446] 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)
447] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
448] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
449] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
450] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
451] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
452] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
453] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
454] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
455] 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
456] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
457] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
458] 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.
459] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
460] 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.
461] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
462] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
463] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
464] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
465] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
466] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
467] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
468] 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
469] 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).
470] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
471] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
472] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
473] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
474] 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)
475] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
476] 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)
477] 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)
478] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
479] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
480] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
481] 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.
482] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
483] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
484] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
485] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
486] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
487] 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.
488] 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)
489] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
490] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
491] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
492] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
493] 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
494] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
495] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
496] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
497] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
498] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
499] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
500] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
501] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
502] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
503] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
504] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
505] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
506] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
507] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
508] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
509] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
510] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
511] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
512] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
513] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
514] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
515] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
516] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
517] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
518] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
519] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
520] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
521] 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)
522] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
523] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
524] 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
525] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
526] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
527] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
528] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
529] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
530] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
531] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
532] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
533] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
534] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
535] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
536] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
537] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
538] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
539] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
540] 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
541] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
542] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
543] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
544] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
545] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
546] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
547] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
548] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
549] 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
550] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
551] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
552] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
553] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
554] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
555] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
556] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
557] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
558] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
559] 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.
560] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
561] 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
562] 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)
563] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
564] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
565] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
566] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
567] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
568] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
569] 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
570] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
571] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
572] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
573] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
574] 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.
575] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
576] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
577] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
578] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
579] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
580] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
581] 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.
582] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
583] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
584] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
585] 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.
586] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
587] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
588] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
589] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
590] 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.
591] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
592] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
593] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
594] 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.
595] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
596] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
597] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
598] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
599] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
600] 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.