Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.
2] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
3] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
4] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
5] 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.
6] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
7] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
8] 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)
9] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
10] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
11] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
12] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
13] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
14] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
15] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
16] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
17] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
18] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
19] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
20] 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.
21] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
22] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
23] 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
24] 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.
25] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
26] 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
27] 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)
28] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
29] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
30] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
31] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
32] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
33] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
34] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
35] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
36] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
37] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
38] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
39] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
40] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
41] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
42] 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)
43] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
44] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
45] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
46] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
47] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
48] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
49] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
50] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
51] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
52] 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.
53] 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
54] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
55] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
56] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
57] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
58] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
59] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
60] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
61] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
62] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
63] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
64] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
65] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
66] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
67] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
68] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
69] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
70] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
71] 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
72] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
73] 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.
74] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
75] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
76] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
77] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
78] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
79] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
80] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
81] 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
82] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
83] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
84] 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
85] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
86] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
87] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
88] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
89] 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)
90] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
91] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
92] 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
93] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
94] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
95] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
96] 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
97] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
98] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
99] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
100] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
101] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
102] 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)
103] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
104] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
105] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
106] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
107] 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
108] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
109] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
110] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
111] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
112] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
113] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
114] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
115] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
116] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
117] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
118] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
119] 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)
120] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
121] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
122] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
123] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
124] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
125] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
126] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
127] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
128] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
129] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
130] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
131] 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.”
132] 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.
133] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
134] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
135] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
136] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
137] 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)
138] 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.
139] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
140] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
141] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
142] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
143] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
144] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
145] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
146] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
147] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
148] 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
149] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
150] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
151] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
152] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
153] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
154] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
155] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
156] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
157] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
158] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
159] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
160] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
161] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
162] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
163] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
164] 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.
165] 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)
166] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
167] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
168] 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.
169] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
170] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
171] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
172] 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.
173] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
174] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
175] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
176] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
177] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
178] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
179] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
180] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
181] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
182] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
183] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
184] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
185] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
186] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
187] 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
188] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
189] 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.
190] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
191] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
192] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
193] 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
194] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
195] 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).
196] 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]
197] 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 .
198] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
199] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
200] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
201] 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.
202] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
203] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
204] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
205] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
206] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
207] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
208] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
209] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
210] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
211] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
212] 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
213] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
214] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
215] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
216] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
217] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
218] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
219] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
220] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
221] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
222] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
223] 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
224] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
225] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
226] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
227] 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.
228] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
229] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
230] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
231] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
232] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
233] 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
234] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
235] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
236] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
237] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
238] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
239] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
240] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
241] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
242] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
243] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
244] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
245] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
246] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
247] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
248] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
249] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
250] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
251] 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.
252] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
253] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
254] 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.
255] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
256] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
257] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
258] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
259] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
260] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
261] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
262] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
263] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
264] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
265] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
266] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
267] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
268] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
269] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
270] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
271] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
272] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
273] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
274] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
275] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
276] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
277] 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.
278] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
279] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
280] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
281] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
282] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
283] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
284] 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)
285] 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
286] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
287] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
288] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
289] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
290] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
291] 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.
292] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
293] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
294] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
295] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
296] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
297] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
298] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
299] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
300] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
301] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
302] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
303] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
304] 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
305] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
306] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
307] 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
308] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
309] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
310] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
311] 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
312] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
313] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
314] 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)
315] Commonsense is not so common.
316] 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.
317] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
318] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
319] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
320] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
321] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
322] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
323] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
324] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
325] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
326] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
327] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
328] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
329] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
330] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
331] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
332] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
333] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
334] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
335] 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
336] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
337] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
338] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
339] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
340] 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.
341] 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
342] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
343] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
344] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
345] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
346] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
347] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
348] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
349] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
350] 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 .
351] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
352] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
353] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
354] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
355] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
356] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
357] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
358] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
359] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
360] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
361] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
362] 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.
363] 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.
364] 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.
365] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
366] 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
367] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
368] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
369] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
370] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
371] 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.
372] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
373] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
374] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
375] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
376] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
377] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
378] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
379] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
380] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
381] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
382] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
383] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
384] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
385] 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
386] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
387] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
388] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
389] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
390] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
391] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
392] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
393] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
394] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
395] 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.
396] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
397] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
398] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
399] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
400] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
401] 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).
402] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
403] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
404] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
405] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
406] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
407] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
408] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
409] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
410] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
411] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
412] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
413] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
414] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
415] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
416] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
417] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
418] 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.
419] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
420] 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
421] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
422] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
423] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
424] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
425] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
426] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
427] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
428] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
429] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
430] 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).
431] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
432] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
433] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
434] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
435] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
436] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
437] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
438] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
439] 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.
440] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
441] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
442] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
443] 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
444] 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.
445] 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)
446] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
447] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
448] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
449] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
450] 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
451] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
452] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
453] 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.
454] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
455] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
456] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
457] 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.
458] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
459] 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
460] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
461] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
462] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
463] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
464] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
465] 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)
466] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
467] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
468] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
469] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
470] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
471] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
472] 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
473] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
474] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
475] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
476] 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)
477] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
478] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
479] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
480] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
481] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
482] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
483] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
484] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
485] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
486] 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)
487] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
488] 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
489] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
490] 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
491] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
492] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
493] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
494] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
495] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
496] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
497] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
498] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
499] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
500] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
501] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
502] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
503] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
504] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
505] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
506] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
507] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
508] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
509] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
510] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
511] 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.
512] 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
513] 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
514] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
515] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
516] 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
517] 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.
518] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
519] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
520] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
521] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
522] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
523] 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]
524] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
525] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
526] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
527] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
528] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
529] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
530] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
531] 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.
532] 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
533] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
534] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
535] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
536] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
537] 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
538] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
539] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
540] 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
541] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
542] 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)
543] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
544] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
545] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
546] 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)
547] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
548] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
549] 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.
550] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
551] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
552] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
553] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
554] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
555] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
556] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
557] 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.
558] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
559] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
560] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
561] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
562] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
563] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
564] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
565] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
566] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
567] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
568] 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).
569] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
570] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
571] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
572] 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.
573] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
574] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
575] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
576] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
577] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
578] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
579] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
580] 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
581] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
582] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
583] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
584] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
585] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
586] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
587] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
588] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
589] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
590] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
591] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
592] 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.
593] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
594] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
595] 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
596] 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.
597] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
598] 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.
599] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
600] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.